UPPER DIR: Police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa said on Sunday they had arrested five of six suspects named in a case involving the alleged assault and intimidation of a teenage boy.
Wari Circle Deputy Superintendent of Police Fakhr-i-Alam confirmed the arrests. One suspect named in the complaint remains unrested. The boy alleged that a friend called him to a meeting place on October 25.
Two men then forced him into a vehicle and took him to an unfinished house in Shinkarai. According to his complaint, several people confined him in a room for approximately three hours.
He accused them of beating and threatening him. The teenager also alleged that some suspects recorded the incident on their mobile phones.
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He said threats against his life and warnings about circulating the video prevented him from reporting the incident immediately. A purported recording later appeared on social media.
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Wari police registered a first information report (FIR) on Friday under Sections 364-A, 342, 506, 147 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The provisions concern kidnapping, wrongful confinement, criminal intimidation, rioting and unlawful assembly. Police have opened an investigation into the allegations.
