Police have arrested a couple and their son for allegedly luring the poor young girls for jobs on attractive salaries and forcibly involving them in immoral activities for the sake of money.
The accused used to blackmail the girls by making obscene videos. After receiving a complaint, the Dhamial police raided a place and detained the suspects. A case was also registered on the complaint of a victim.
The suspects would target young girls from poverty-stricken families in remote rural areas of Punjab and use them for heinous activities by promising them jobs.
A 14-year-old girl from Kot Urdu complained to the police Amir Abbas, his wife Samina and a woman named Farazana came to their house and told her parents that they will get their daughter employed at a house as maid against good salary.
The accused brought the victim to Girja Road Rawalpindi by promising to give their parents good salary. They kept the victim at a place, subjected her to alleged rape and also made videos. The suspects kept blackmailing her through videos. The couple and their son Zaman would take her to different places on bookings and collect money.
In December last year, Aamir Abbas and his accomplices again went to the victim's village and brought her cousin by tricking her. The same exercise was meted out to the other girl. The suspects kept dropping the two victims at different places for sexual pleasures of their clients.
On Eidul Fitr, the two cousins came back home, but the suspects were blackmailing them to come back with warning to make their videos public.
The victims returned to Rawalpindi to officially lodge complaint with the police. Their video statements also surfaced in which the girls could be heard telling the stories of their miseries.
Dhamial SHO Saleem Qureshi said that the police had received information that the girls were being blackmailed, which led to a raid and the affected girls were safely rescued. The three accused were taken into custody, a case was registered against and further investigation is underway, he added.
Saddar SP Nabeel Khokhar said that the medical examination of the victim girls had been initiated and that the case would be investigated on merit and in the light of solid evidence.
The police have assured the public that strict action will be taken against the accused, and efforts are being made to identify and arrest any other individuals involved in similar criminal activities. Authorities are also working closely with child protection and social welfare organisations to provide the victims with necessary support, including counselling and rehabilitation.
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