Vehari district police have arrested a 16-year-old boy for swindling a Punjab Assembly member out of Rs 200,000 by posing as a woman, a report in the local media said on Saturday.
According to the report, Amin Bhatti, a resident of Sadiq Town got the personal cell phone number of MPA Bilal Bhatti of PP-235 Vehari. Amin first sent text messages to the MPA pretending to be a 32-year-old married woman, telling him that ‘she’ was from Lahore and was married in a landed family in Vehari.
According to the FIR registered against Amin under Sections 386 and 25-B of the Pakistan Penal Code on the application of the MPA’s manager Sagheer Bhatti, the boy had conned the MPA and received Rs 200,000.
The FIR said the money was sent through easy paisa, mobile easy loads and bank transfers.
The report said the MPA and the boy had talked for four months. Things came to an end after the MPA insisted on meeting ‘her’. Amin told Bhatti that ‘she’ could not meet him because her family was very conservative. The MPA finally got suspicious and handed the number to the police.
The MPA’s manager told police that the ‘lady’ used to talk for 10 to 12 hours a day.
Station House Officer Zubair Lodhi said that the police traced the number to Amin in 72 hours, and took him into custody. He said Amin had confessed, telling the police that the MPA had never visited his constituency after the general elections.
The boy claimed that he was avenging the “injustices done to his people”. He said the boy had complained that the MPA should be asked why he had urged a married woman to leave her husband.
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