The National Agency for Investigation of the Cyber Crime (Nccia) on Saturday arrested three people suspected of making violations and blackmailing a minor in Abbottabad, according to a police officer.
Haripur’s sub -inspector (SI) Basit Ashraf said in a statement that the suspects were part of a gang that supposedly violated a child less than gunpoint and filmed the assault, using the footage as blackmail.
“The Nccia carried out an operation in Abbottabad,” he said. “The Nccia registered a case against nine suspects … they assaulted the victim several times and blackmail his family with the videos.”
If Ashraf said that the suspects supposedly shared the videos on WhatsApp and used them to blackmail the victim’s family.
“Mobile phones and pornographic videos recovered from suspects during raids,” he said, added that they would be used as evidence.
In July, Haripur police arrested a seminary teacher for allegedly sexually abusing a five -year -old boy visually talks in the Haripur area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, police said.
The victim’s uncle at the Saddar Police Station on July 10 presented a first information report (FIR) on July 10 under section 376 of the Pakistan Criminal Code (rape) and Section 53 (sexual abuse) of the KP Child Protection Law (CPA).
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, were informed.
The report Cruel numbers 2024 By Sahil it was prepared based on data collected from 81 national and regional newspapers throughout the country.
“The objective of the report is 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,” the report said.
