Video scandal accused remanded in police custody

QUETTA:

Judicial Magistrate Quetta-9 has remanded two accused into seven-day police custody who are allegedly involved in kidnapping, raping and filming two girls. They then made the videos viral on social media to blackmail and force both the girl into prostitution.

Amid tight security police produced both the accused, Hidayatullah Khilji and his brother Khalil Khilji before the judicial magistrate and sought remand for seven days for interrogation. The court accepted the application of police and granted seven-day police custody.

Police has launched an investigation after receiving two complaints by two women as in the first complaint a woman stated that the accused kidnapped her two daughters whose objectionable videos made rounds on social media. She blamed that it is evident from the videos that both the girls were being tortured.

A senior police officer, who is part of the investigation teams, said that mobile phones, laptops and other equipment being used for filming the objectionable videos were sent to Punjab Forensic Laboratory for forensic tests. He said that police teams were conducting raids for the arrest of their co-accused Shani who is still at large.

Meanwhile, the Advisor to the Chief Minister on Home and Tribal affairs, Mir Ziaullah Langove has said that through foreign office the concerned authorities have contacted the Afghan government in Kabul for the return of two victim’ girls’ beck to Pakistan for helping in the investigation of the scandal.

“Formal request was sent to the Afghan government for sending back both the girls to Quetta for investigation as they are in Kabul,” Langove said. He said that the state would fulfill its responsibilities by taking action against such criminals who were involved in heinous and shameful crimes.

“The accused don’t deserve any pardon and all possible steps would be taken to give justice to the affected families,” he said, adding that Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qudoos Bezenjo was a personally supervising the investigation as it was matter of respect and honor of our womenfolk.

 

Published in The Express Tribune, December 13^th, 2021.