Sep 10, 2015
LAHORE: The Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) police arrested on Wednesday the prime suspect in the case pertaining to blackmail and harassment of lady doctors of various public hospitals in the provincial metropolis.
The police took the suspect, Abdul Wahab Alvi, into custody from hilly area of Naran after tracing his hideout. He had gone underground when some of the victims came forward with complaints and sensitive agencies started pursuing him for posing as their employee.
A resident of Layya district, Abdul Wahab harassed more than 200 young lady doctors of the public sector hospitals of the provincial capital by hacking their social media accounts.
Police inquiries so far reveal that Wahab would send a voice code to the targeted lady doctors through Viber application on their cell phones to get access to their private information or photo galleries.
He would then blackmail the doctors, threatening them that he would share the information or photos either with their relatives or on social media to defame them.
Through the modus operandi, he would make his victims pay him amounts ranging between Rs15,000 and Rs30,000.
A case has been registered against Wahab by Gawalmandi police.
Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rana Ayaz Saleem told Dawn the suspect had escaped to Naran valley shortly after the matter was reported in the national media.
He said a police team was dispatched to Naran to arrest him from his hideout. The SSP said that during interrogation Wahab confessed to have harassed a number of female medics of Children’s, Mayo and Sir Ganga Ram hospitals.
“Apparently the suspect has not assaulted any lady doctor so far”, Mr Ayaz Saleem said, adding that investigation was in progress.
(Daily Dawn)
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