Police say two suspects being grilled for raping, filming both the victims
QUETTA - City police claimed to have arrested two suspects for allegedly filming, raping and blackmailing two sisters in Quetta.
Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Quetta Police has vowed to take strict action against the suspects involved in the Quetta video scandal. He said Quetta police arrested suspects Hidayatullah Khilji and his brother Khalil for abducting and raping girls in Balochistan.
Balochistan Chief Minister Mir Abdul Qaddos Bizenjo took notice of the incident said that the episode has shaken the country, adding that the culprits will be handed exemplary punishments.
Reportedly, Hidayat Khilji also made videos of the girls and blackmailed them. The disturbing clips surfaced on social media as well. The incident initially came to light on 2nd December when a woman filed a complaint with the police regarding the abduction of her two daughters. She blamed Hidayat and his brother for the crime. The police immediately arrested the suspects after registering cases against them.
During the raid, the police recovered laptops and mobile phones containing obscene videos of the girls.
Police claimed that the accused raped the girls after luring them into the trap by offering jobs. They revealed that the accused intoxicated the girls before raping them.
DIG Fida Hussain said he is personally overseeing the case to ensure strict punishment to the culprits.
The first information report (FIR) of the case was registered at Quaidabad police station on the complaint of the mother of the two girls under Sections 34 (common intention), 354-A (stripping woman of her clothes), 365-B (seducing or forcing of adults into illicit intercourse), 376 (punishment for rape), 376-A (disclosure of identity of victim of rape, etc), 496-A (enticing or taking away a woman), 503 (criminal intimidation), 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) and 509 (violating modesty or causing sexual harassment) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
According to the FIR registered on December 2, the mother said that the two suspects had been blackmailing her two daughters, aged 19 and 16 years, in different ways for two years. "They have been forcing them into prostitution after recording [their] nude videos and photos and threatening them," the FIR quoted her as saying.
Violence was also being inflicted on the girls in the footage, according to the complaint. The mother said she had captured the evidence on a USB and requested the initiation of legal proceedings against the suspects.
The investigating officer in the case says many inappropriate videos of girls were found from the suspect’s possession and his laptop, various mobiles and other devices were seized.
According to the SHO, a high-level investigation team had been formed to interrogate the suspect and the police were conducting raids to arrest the remaining gang members.