Man arrested by FIA for blackmailing girls on social media

Culprit has allegedly been blackmailing victim for several months

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Thursday arrested a man for blackmailing girls after befriending them on Facebook.

The cyber crime wing of the agency received an application from a resident of Lahore’s Iqbal Town, stating that she became friends with a man named Zubair on Facebook and he saved photos and videos of her and doctored them to make them obscene, Express News reported.

According to the girl, Zubair was allegedly blackmailing her for several months, and the victim has given him Rs0.2 million but he continued blackmailing her.

FIA conducted a raid in the Iqbal Town area and arrested the accused. Officials also recovered indecent videos and photos of different girls from his mobile phone and laptop. A case was registered against the accused under the cybercrime act.



In a related incident on April 16, cyber crime wing declared a senior Punjab Police official as an absconder after he uploaded his wife’s private pictures and videos on social media.

According to Express News, FIA asked assistance from the provincial police and other law enforcement agencies to arrest the accused, SP Junaid Arshad.

Arshad made a fake Facebook account with the help of a friend and sent pictures of his wife to her family, to prove her alleged immorality after she refused to permit him from marrying a second time.

The complaint with the agency was registered by Arshad’s wife.

During the investigation, FIA came to the conclusion that Arshad was behind the creation of the fake account and registered a case against him. Arshad managed to flee after the court rejected his bail.