RAWALPINDI: A police official and a government lawyer (public prosecutor) have been arrested for allegedly running a honey trap racket.

Police are also conducting raids to arrest other gang members.

A case was registered with the airport police on the complaint of ASI Ahsanullah against the gang which extorted huge sums of money by honey-trapping citizens. Eight people, including an ASI and a government lawyer, have been named in the case, including a fake lawyer, a police spokesman said.

He said on the instructions of CPO Syed Khalid Hamdani, the police registered a case against the gang.

The gang was involved in registering false cases in various districts, including Rawalpindi, Attock and Jhelum and was also involved in making fake identity cards of women. The spokesman said the gang members used to change the photos on the CNIC cards of unrelated women by forgery and used to register cases by presenting women as victims.

Evidence of the gang’s forgery came to light during the investigation of a case registered with Chaklala police station in 2024.

Published in Dawn, June 19th, 2025