‘Sexual predator’ arrested

A victim approached cops to tell them about her ‘predicament’

LAHORE:

The Civil Lines Police Station arrested a suspect who had been accused of recording indecent videos of girls to blackmail them.

The Superintendent of Police of Civil Lines, Rizwan Tariq, said police had been interrogating the suspect.

Police said that the suspect was allegedly a member of a racket involved in this heinous crime.

Police claimed that the mobile phone of the prime suspect who had now been under police custody contained dozens of indecent videos.

The police also claimed that the prime suspect operated with four associates who allegedly made obscene videos of girls and blackmailed them.

The police claimed that the suspect allegedly used to make his victims take intoxicating drinks before recording their videos.

Police said that suspect allegedly demanded hundreds of thousands of rupees from his victims by threatening them to upload their videos on the social media if his demands were not met.

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One of the victims had approached the police for legal action. She told the police that the suspect’s associates were his own cousins.

Police registered an FIR according to which the suspect made the complainant’s indecent videos after giving her intoxicating drinks and then threatened her to upload those videos on the social media if she did not pay him Rs500,000.

She had taken her family into confidence over the matter, who encouraged her to tell the whole matter to the police.

SP Rizwan Tariq said that as soon as the suspect identified his associates, police would arrest them.

The use of explicit videos and photos for blackmail is not a new phenomenon. Two weeks ago, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) cybercrime cell claimed to have arrested two men for harassing, blackmailing and threatening a girl in Multan.

According to official sources, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) cybercrime team arrested two accused named Muhammad Jamshaid and Muhammad Khalid over harassing, blackmailing and threatening a girl with explicit media of her.

The complainant, Mushtaq Ahmad, filed an application contending that the accused were harassing his daughter, upon which FIR No 143/23 was registered.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 27^th, 2023.