The police on Thursday claimed to have arrested a student on charges of harassing and threatening a woman with rape and murder online.
The police said the student was identified as Ibsham Zahid. According to the complainant, she had been blackmailed by Zahid since 2016. He sent her videos and pictures of himself with weapons threatening to rape and kill her. Earlier this month, the woman took to social media and uploaded the messages and photos she had been receiving.
She said that an FIR had also been registered with the Sunder Police but the police refused to arrest Zahid, claiming he was not guilty. When she complained to the Federal Investigation Authority, the perpetrator threatened to rape her in front of her family and kill her father.
On the other hand, talking to a private TV channel father of the girl said that he had lost faith in the country’s judicial system as he has been fighting for justice since 2019, but got support from nowhere.
Following the Twitter outrage, Punjab Information Minister Fayyazul Hassan Chohan took notice of the incident after which Zahid and his father were arrested.
A case has also been registered at the FIA Cyber Crime Circle. Further investigations are under way.
