BAHAWALNAGAR: Police busted a gang of serial rapists allegedly involved in raping minors at gunpoint, filming their inappropriate videos to blackmail them in Haroonabad.

The Haroonabad Saddar Police officials toldDawnthat there had been reports of child abuse and blackmail by a group of men in Haroonabad but no complainant approached them.

Meanwhile, parents of a 15-year-old boy of Basti Tibba Noorpura approached the police, telling them that their son worked at a shopping centre at Fauji Chowk Haroonabad. Around 10 months back, the boy was taken by two of his fellow workers of Bismillah Colony to Chak 71/4-R where he was allegedly raped by four men at gunpoint.

They claimed that the suspects not only raped him multiple times by warning him of posting his videos on social media and extorted thousands of rupees from him through blackmail.

Some time ago, the rapists started millions of rupees and an agricultural plot from the victim, after which he told his parents about the entire situation.

According to police sources, when the victim’s parents pleaded with the alleged rapists in the presence of witnesses to delete the child’s videos, they sought a huge amount of money. At this, the parents approached the police.

On April 29, Saddar Police registered a case against four suspects under sections 375A and 292 on the complaint of the victim’s father and started investigation. The FIR alleged that the influential suspects had repeatedly molested the boy in a year, filming the abuse, threatening to kill and torture him at gunpoint to keep him quiet and blackmailed him to extort money.

According to police spokesperson Zahid Rasool, two key members of the gang had been apprehended, and attempts were underway to apprehend the remaining members.

Police sources claimed that the men had confessed to abusing and blackmailing the child, while indecent videos of some more children had also been recovered from their possession. They said that during initial investigations, the accused had revealed that they had also abused some other children.

Published in Dawn, May 4th, 2026