Karachi: ‘Tiger Memon’ was arrested in Karachi yesterday, not for his links to the Mumbai blasts, but for harassing a girl and her family on Facebook.
The arrest of Furqan Aslam, who calls himself Tiger Memon, by the cyber crime cell of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Wednesday got its share of interest on social media after people mistook him for the fugitive that India is seeking.
Sources said that the dramatic arrest of Aslam took place after a complaint was made by Mohammad Mohsin, the father of the girl, which he submitted to the cyber crime cell of the FIA. He told the FIA that the engagement of his daughter had been solemnised recently.
In the written complaint, he said that for the last month someone had been threatening and intimidating his daughter and wife over telephone, saying if his daughter was married or engaged, he would abduct her and murder all members of the family using gangsters of the Lyari Gang.
The complainant said that Aslam was also using a Facebook ID to post bogus pictures.
The FIA sources said that a team was assigned to address the complaint and they raided Aslam’s house and arrested him.
They said that he voluntarily confessed to using the Facebook ID in the name of Tiger Memon. He also confessed that he created the ID to send the objectionable pictures to the daughter of the complainant.
The suspect also shared the password of his Facebook ID with the investigators, who are now scanning the contents of the profile.
Computers and other electronic gadgets were confiscated from Aslam’s home and a case was registered against him under section 36/36 ETO 2002 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
The fugitive Tiger Memon, an Indian national, is one of the prime suspects in the Mumbai bomb attacks that were carried in 1993, and is wanted by Interpol.
