LAHORE: A judicial magistrate on Saturday granted to police four-day physical remand of eight suspects, including a team member of TikToker girl Ayesha Akram in the Minar-i-Pakistan incident.

Lorry Adda police arrested Amir Sohail alias Rambo and others after Ayesha alleged that Rambo was the mastermind of the incident in which a mob had physically assaulted her on the Independence Day.

She also accused her associate of harassing and blackmailing her for money through her objectionable videos.

The police produced the suspects before Judicial Magistrate Hassan Sarfraz Cheema and sought their physical remand for 14 days.

A counsel for the suspects opposed the remand and said the suspects had in fact protected the TikToker girl from the assault. He said all the suspects were always there in the social media videos of the girl.

However, the magistrate granted four-day remand of the suspects.

Outside the court, Rambo told the media that he was innocent and had been trapped by the girl.

He said Ayesha wanted to mint Rs500,000 from each suspect arrested in the assault case.

Rambo claimed he did not support the idea of Ayesha and she turned against him.

“I asked her not to run after money but pursue her case legally,” he said.

The police had registered the FIR against 400 unidentified persons for assaulting the complainant and molesting her.

Sections 354-A (assault or use of criminal force against woman and stripping her of her clothes), 382 (theft after preparation made for causing death, hurt or restraint in order to commit the theft), 147 (rioting) and 149 (unlawful assembly) of the Pakistan Penal Code have been included in the FIR.

Published in Dawn, October 10th, 2021