A search for two suspects accused of assaulting and filming a teenager in the Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is being looking for, the police said Thursday.
The Mardan police spokesman Muhammad Faheem Khan said that the force had taken quick measures and launched a search operation to arrest the suspects.
“The suspects stripped the boy, hit him with sticks and filmed the assault before making the video viral on social networks,” Faheem said.
Citing the police officer of the Zahoor Babar Afidi district, the spokesman said he reacted strongly to the incident and said that “no powerful person can point to the weak or poor class, the law is the same for all.”
He said that the district police took an immediate notice of the incident and ordered the Hoti police to take strict measures against the culprits.
According to Faheem, the Officer of the Hoti Police Station, Riaz Khan, ordered immediate measures and registered a case against two residents of Gali Bagh, Misri Abad Road.
A first information report (FIR) was registered on Wednesday at the Hoti Police Station in the victim’s complaint under sections 292 (sale, etc. of obscene books, etc.), 355 (assault or criminal force with intention of a disonary person, otherwise, by serious provocation), 376 (violation) and 506 (punishment for intimidation of intimidation; the threat of death due to death or provocation criminal pain). Code, as well as sections 37 (punishment of violence) and 53 (sexual abuse) of the Law of Protection and Welfare of KP children, 2010.
According to the plaintiff, the video was recorded a year ago.
Police added that special teams have formed to arrest the suspects.
Up to 3,364 cases of child abuse of the four provinces, the territory of the capital of Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Gilgit-Baltistan in 2024, according to a civil society report.
The report Cruel numbers 2024 By Sahil it was prepared based on data collected from 81 national and regional newspapers throughout the country.
“The objectives of the report are to present the data on the situation regarding violence against children (up to 18 years) in cases of sexual abuse, kidnapping/kidnapping, missing children and children’s marriages,” Sahil said.
Earlier this week, the police in Mardan arrested four people in a case that involved a viral video in which the suspects were involved in the harassment of a teenager.
The action was taken on the instructions of KP’s Prime Minister, Ali Amin Gandapur, after journalists highlighted the incident.
