Man held for ‘blackmailing’ woman

Suspect extorted about Rs40 million and 583 grams of gold from woman

LAHORE:

Police claimed to have arrested a man on Friday who had been filming and blackmailing a woman after luring her on the promise of marrying her in the Nawankot area.

Police said the suspect, identified as Ali Javed, extorted Rs40 million and 583 grams of gold from the woman.

On December 2, Javed went to Lahore to collect Rs1 million from the woman. Later, he sent the videos to her uncle. Police said the suspect had been blackmailing the victim for the past seven years.

The victim is a married woman. The suspect exploited the differences in her soured marriage and convinced her to get a divorce. He developed relationships with her over promises of marriage, the victim complained before the police.

Preliminary investigations revealed that the suspect had also been running a fake jewellery business, and had for the past seven years been making obscene videos of women, extorting money from them and abusing them.

The suspect is a father of two daughters. Police have handed him over to the investigation wing of the law enforcement agency. Separately a woman was sexually harassed and manhandled by youth in Shera Kot. “I was returning home after buying fruits from a vendor. Waiting at a deserted place, he grabbed my arm. I managed to flee. He followed and caught my shoulder. He insisted on my contact number,” the victim mentioned in her complaint.

She narrated the ordeal before her family members after reaching home and ultimately police were informed about the issue. A Dolphin Squad team responded to the call and arrested the suspect identified as Waqar.

In another incident of sexual violence, a 12-year-old boy was sodomised in Raiwind City on Friday. Tahir, a labourer and father of the victim, used to drop his son at his neighbour Ayub’s place when leaving for work. In the evening when he returned home, his son told him that the suspect Ayub had sexually assaulted him.He informed the police. Police have arrested the suspect.

Earlier this week, a man was accused of sexually assaulting a woman.

The incident was reported in Punjab’s Kharianwala Town.

The complainant told the police that she went to the Allied Hospital to buy medicine with her 22-year-old daughter. She added that a man named Nabil Ahmed came to her and said he will bring her medicine from a medical store. She sent her young daughter with the suspect who took her to a secluded place and allegedly raped her.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 11^th, 2021.