TOBA TEK SINGH: Ghulam Muhammadabad police in Faisalabad claimed to have arrested on Friday five members of a honey-trap gang, including a woman, who allegedly tortured a man and extorted Rs400,000 from him.

Complainant Waqas Munir, who is an assistant of a homeopath, said in the FIR registered by Ghulam Muhammadabad police that he was present on the clinic when a woman, Aqsa Sultan, came there and requested him to check her ailing mother at her house.

As per the FIR, on way to her house, Aqsa allegedly lured Waqas to a pizza outlet.

The complainant said that as they were sitting in the pizza outlet, six men came there and kidnapped him.

He alleged that the suspects took him to a house, where they tied his legs and arms with a rope and subjected him to severe torture. He also alleged that the suspects snatched Rs150,000 from him, besides getting transferred Rs250,000 to a bank account from his account online, and set him free.

Acting on the complaint, the police arrested Aqsa, and his accomplices Mujahid, Ishaq, Fahad and Ahmad, registering an FIR against them under sections 365, 384, 148, 149, 382, 384 and 343 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

They say that raids are being conducted to arrest two other accomplices of the woman.

Published in Dawn, May 9th, 2026