An anti-terrorism court (ATC) handed over six members of a gang, involved in three cases of kidnapping for ransom, to the police on a 14-day physical remand. Earlier, the police produced the accused – Muhammad Hassan, Nadeem Haider, Muhammad Shahzad, Muhammad Amir, Muhammad Ali Butt, and Azeem Dar – before ATC Judge Arshad Javed. The investigation officer requested the court to grant physical remand of the accused, stating that they had kidnapped three citizens and received millions of rupees as ransom. He submitted that the accused received Rs 500 million as ransom in cryptocurrency in two different incidents. He also mentioned that the accused kidnapped Naeemur Rehman, owner of VRC Cryptocurrency Company, and withdrew millions of rupees from his cryptocurrency .
