RAWALPINDI: After befriending a young man on Facebook, a working woman was allegedly promised marriage but was instead subjected to three years of financial exploitation and sexual assault.
The man allegedly subjected her to financial exploitation by getting cash and gifts and sexually abusing her, the victim said in the FIR.
A resident of Mugalabad, the woman lodged an FIR with the Rawat police saying that she was working as an assistant at a hair transplant clinic and earning Rs100,000 per month.
She said she became friend with one Wishal Akhtar, a resident of Christian Colony Adiala Road, on Facebook three years ago.
Later, they contacted each other on mobile phone and their relationship grew with the man promising to marry her.
She said on various occasions, Wishal was given costly gifts of clothes, shoes, watches, perfumes etc. He also kept extorting money from her on different occasions. She claimed that in addition Wishal also took Rs3OO,000 in cash from her at different times.
During this time, she said she asked him to introduce himself to her family members, so he started visiting her home.
She said that on April 26 she was taken to a hotel in Bahria Town’s Phase 7 and raped by the suspect.
She said Wishal threatened to kill her if she disclosed the matter to anyone. Later, it turned out that he was already married and refused to marry her. She said he kept getting money and gifts from her and committed fraud; therefore, legal action should be taken against the suspect. The police registered a case and launched an investigation. Staff Reporter