A local court in Rawalpindi has sentenced a couple to life and death for kidnapping, sexually assaulting, blackmailing and also recording inappropriate videos of dozens of girls.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Jahangir Gondal on Monday awarded death sentence to Qasim Jahangir over rape and recording inappropriate videos while also announcing three-year imprisonment and a total of Rs2.5 million fine.
Convict’s wife Kiran Jahangir has been sentenced to life along with a fine of one million rupees.
The couple confessed to the sexual assault of 45 girls, taking their photographs and making inappropriate videos of at least 10 victims.
The case had gripped media attention for weeks in 2019 after a female student, who is also married, was abducted from outside Gordon College by a woman who pretended to be a fellow student.
The complainant had alleged that she was offered lift by a woman, who kidnapped her. The complainant had further alleged that the kidnapper woman and her husband had assaulted her and filmed the act.
Police had arrested the suspects and recovered dozens of porn videos of local women from their mobile phones, laptops and pen drives.
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Kiran had told the victim that her ‘brother’ was coming to pick her in a while. After a few minutes, a man arrived in a grey car and the woman pushed the victim inside the vehicle and threatened her with a knife to silence her.
The student was taken to a house in Gulistan Colony where Qasim, the husband, allegedly raped her while Kiran, the wife, took pictures and recorded video of the crime. They threatened and blackmailed the victim by showing her sexually explicit video. She was dropped on Tipu Road later at night.
According to the complainant, the accused also admitted to have kidnapped several girls of ages 8-12 with the help of his wife and subjected them to similar heinous crime.
Police had also recovered photographs and video clips from the accused’s house.
The police official said that the couple had sold the videos and photos to an international porn website.
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Did the cyber crime wing follow up with Interpol for arrest of the buyers Since it s not the first time selling videos online did FIA find any pattern for payment of such videos to trace others that might be out there