Two ‘child molesters’ apprehended in Rawalpindi

In separate incident, FIA nabbed an online harassment suspect

RAWALPINDI:

Two innocent children were raped in separate incidents that occurred in Rawalpindi. One of the accused also recorded an indecent video of a 12-year-old student in Jatli and used it to blackmail him after uploading the video and getting it to go viral on social media.

SSP Operation Hafiz Kamran Asghar took strict notice and arrested the accused in both incidents. According to the police, the father of the 12-year-old, a student in the eighth grade, filed a case in Jatli Police Station, in which he said that the obscene accused, Muhammad Ali, took his son home, molested him and also made an indecent video of him being abused before threatening to blackmail him. Later he made the video viral.

The SSP Operation issued a strict notice on the serious incident and ordered SP Saddar Nabil Khokhar to arrest the accused. On the complaint of the child’s father, the police arrested the accused under Section 377, 506 and 292 PPC for blackmailing a minor by recording an indecent video.

On the other hand, the father of the victim in the other incident, who is a six-year-old child, reported to the airport police that the accused, Akram, took his son to a house under construction where he molested him. Police registered a case and arrested the accused. The SSP Operation said that incidents of exploitation of children and women were intolerable. He assured that the accused would be punished.

Blackmailer netted

The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Cyber Crime Circle Islamabad has successfully apprehended an accused involved in the act of blackmailing children through the circulation of explicit pictures and videos featuring minors.

As per the authorities, the individual named Wasim Akram was engaged in disseminating objectionable content involving children on the internet. Furthermore, he was also sharing these explicit materials with the families of the affected children.

The culprit was using TikTok as a platform to share offensive pictures and videos, leading to their widespread circulation, but he was also using them to blackmail the victims. The accused was apprehended during a raid in Islamabad, during which authorities recovered a mobile phone and materials deemed objectionable from his possession. Subsequently, an investigation has been initiated based on these findings.

Published in The Express Tribune May 3^rd, 2024.