Accused remanded into FIA custody

He was involved in trapping girls on pretext of helping them get jobs

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) officials produced an accused, identified as Mughees Ahmed, before the magisterial court on Thursday for his alleged involvement in making sexually explicit videos of girls and subsequently using them to blackmail the victims.

He used to trap girls on the pretext of helping them get jobs in multinational companies.  The accused was given a four-day physical remand on a plea to properly investigate the matter.



The Investigation Officer (IO) implored the court that they received information through a reliable source that a person named Mughees Ahmed is involved in harassing and sexually exploiting young females. He contended that their sources revealed that the accused has also extorted money from several victims. "We received information that the main accused, along with other members of his gang, is present in a house and can be arrested."

Subsequently, a five-member team headed by Inspector Fakhar Abbass was formed to raid the house. During the raid, a mobile phone was found and according to senior investigator Rana Obaidullah Minhas said that a number of objectionable pictures of different females were available in the phone storage. During the investigation, the accused also confessed that he sexually exploited many females for financial benefits.



The accused committed offenses and the case was registered against him under Sections 20,21 & 24 of PECA-2016, 420,109 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

The IO sought remand of 14-day on a plea to investigate the matter to apprehend other members of his gang, recover more data which the accused had used for the purpose. However, the judge granted a four-day physical remand and handed him over to the FIA officials.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 31^st, 2018.