SUKKUR: A team of FIA cybercrime wing arrested two boys after a raid on their houses in Mirpur Mathelo town in Ghotki district on Thursday on charges of filming a 14-year-old girl’s indecent pictures and uploading them on the social media.

The FIA team detained the suspects after receiving a complaint from the girl’s father, and confirmed that a case had been registered against them under relevant sections of law and seized their mobile phones.

Talking to media persons, Sukkur FIA’s cybercrime wing in-charge Amjad Abbasi said the suspects’ phones contained explicit pictures of many other girls as well.

Later, FIA officials produced the suspects in the court of a judicial magistrate in Sukkur and obtained their three-day remand.

Published in Dawn, July 2nd, 2021

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