Four arrested for blackmailing doctor

Police have arrested four people on charges of blackmailing people by recording their objectionable video clips.

According to the police, Dr Ghulam Murtaza, a resident of Chak 79/12 L, complained that he had set up a clinic in the village where the accused Saeed, Naeem and a woman came in a car.

The suspects took him to a house in Salman Colony on the pretext of renting a house in Burewala. There, they called their accomplices Rashid Sagir, Ali Akbar and Aqeel Anjum.

The complainant stated that the woman took off her clothes and her accomplices also forcibly stripped him in the house and also forced him to take a pill. The doctor stated that despite his resistance, the suspects made a video of him and the woman. Later, the accused snatched Rs73,000 and valuables from him and threatened to post the video clip on the social media if he did not pay Rs1.5 million within four days, the doctor told the police.

The doctor said that he returned to the village after begging for his life and informed Bangla Okanwala Police Station SHO Imtiaz Ahmad Noon about the incident. After the registration of the case, the SHO formed a raiding team that arrested four of the suspects.

Police officials said the suspects had revealed during interrogation that there were six members of the gang of blackmailers, including the woman named Shakila, who had deprived a number of people in several other cities of the province of millions of rupees through blackmailing, extortion and fraud. The SHO told local media representatives that investigation into the case was underway and more revelations were expected.