CHINIOT: Police arrested a schoolteacher for allegedly raping a married woman, making her obscene videos and extracting gold jewellery and cash from her through blackmail.

According to the FIR registered by the city police, on the complaint of the survivor’s husband, the suspect, a teacher posted at the Government High School, Chiniot, taught his son, a student of 10th class, at his private academy.

The complainant said the suspect would call his wife to his academy on the pretext of discussing matters related to his son’s studies.

He said some weeks ago his wife fell sick and went to a local quack, Shafiq, to take medicines where the suspect also arrived. He said the quack and the teacher administered sedatives to his wife and when she was falling unconscious, the suspect (teacher) accompanied her to their house to drop her there.

The complainant said that finding her alone at the house, the suspect raped her and made objectionable video of the episode.

He said later the teacher started blackmailing his wife and asked her to handover her gold jewellery to him, or he would upload the obscene clip on social media.

He said his wife got blackmailed and gave the suspect nine-tola gold jewellery. Similarly, he said, a few days later the suspect received Rs250,000 cash from her. Afterwards, the suspect demanded one million rupees but she could not arrange the amount.

Annoyed by her refusal to pay the amount, he said, the suspect sent her wife’s obscene videos to the in-laws of their daughter, who was divorced by her husband over the issue.

Finally, the blackmailed woman revealed the whole story to her husband, who lodged a complaint with the city police. The police registered a case under sections 376, 382 and 506 of PPC against the suspect and arrested him and his accomplice Shafiq.

District Education Officer Dr Khadim Hussain said the teacher had been suspended from service and a departmental inquiry had been initiated against him under the Punjab Employees Efficiency and Discipline ACT (PEEDA), 2006.

Published in Dawn, August 11th, 2021