The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested on Friday a religious teacher, accused of blackmailing his minor student and her family with her personal pictures. Creative Commons/File
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) arrested on Friday a religious teacher, suspected of blackmailing his minor student and her family with her personal pictures.
“The FIA’s Cyber Crime Circle conducted a successful raid in Gulshan-i-Iqbal and arrested the suspect,” said Faizullah Korejo, the agency s additional director at its Cybercrime Reporting Centre in Karachi.
According to Korejo, a “brave mother” reported that she had appointed a
Qari (religious teacher) for home tuition to teach the Holy Quran (Arabic) to her children. Later, her 13-year-old daughter complained that she had been “physically abused” by the teacher while studying the Quran at home.
The accused also sent the photographs to the girl s mother via Whatsapp for blackmailing. The accused was threatening the family that if his unethical demands were not met, he would make the pictures viral on social media, said Korejo.
The FIA official said that then one of their teams conducted a raid to nab the suspect.
The suspect was arrested and his mobile phone was confiscated that showed obscene image of the minor, Korejo said.
The religious leader has been booked under various sections of Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 and Pakistan Penal Code.
The FIA took service of a stress counsellor for the minor victim to give her professional counselling.