Busted: Eight arrested for producing porn

LAHORE: The Lahore police claims to have arrested eight suspects, including two women, involved in producing porn movies and selling them in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa. Police said the gang was arrested in a raid at a bungalow in Sabzazar on a tip-off. Filmmaking equipment, including video cameras and movie prints, were found inside the house and seized by the law enforcers. During initial interrogation, the arrested suspects told police they had been producing porn movies for a cinema in K-P and had been were running the business for the past five years. The suspects had rented a house in Sabzazar and after appointing a manager to hire actors for the movies. Police claimed the men were paying Rs100,000 for a movie to male and female actors and then selling the print after translating it into Pushto. While the arrested girls alleged the men had conned them into coming to the place, the men claimed the women had come there on their freewill for the purpose of earning money.

Published in The Express Tribune, January 15^th, 2017.