MANSEHRA: The police have arrested three persons for assaulting a 15-year-old boy and making a video of the act to blackmail him in the Sum Allai Mung area of the Siren Valley.

“Eighteen persons were booked in the case as five of them first kidnapped and assaulted the boy and then made a video to blackmail him if he disclosed their crime to his parents or police,” a statement issued by the police said on Tuesday.

Father of the victim, 15, lodged an FIR with the Shinkiari police, stating that gangsters had kidnapped his son earlier this month when he had gone to visit his aunt’s house. “They confined my son in a room and repeatedly assaulted him. They also filmed the act as a blackmailing tactic,” he said.

The complainant said around 18 accused assaulted his son. The police lodged the case under sections 376/34 of the Pakistan Penal Code and Section 53 of the Child Protection Act, and arrested three of them.

The statement said raids were being conducted to arrest the remaining accused.

Published in Dawn, June 10th, 2026