TikToker Junaid Jani arrested with three female relatives in ‘honey trap’ case in Karachi

The National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) has arrested a TikToker, Makhdoom Junaid, better known as Junaid Jani, in a honey trap case.

According to media reports, he allegedly attacked an NCCIA officer and used his female relatives to obstruct his arrest during a raid in Karachi's Abul Hassan Isphahani Road area.

As an NCCIA team from Sukkur, accompanied by the Mobina Town police, reached the area on an informer’s tip, Junaid tried to flee the scene. He instructed his female relatives to follow him, which they did, an act captured on video and widely shared on social media.

He also went live on social media and provoked the women to stage protests, even instructing them to remove their clothes. The suspect is also alleged to have attacked an NCCIA officer with a butcher’s cleaver, seriously injuring him.

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The police later overpowered Junaid and arrested him along with three women from his family, identified as Fehmida, Ghazala and Kainat.

According to the NCCIA, Junaid allegedly befriended a man via a woman named Reshma and sent him an edited objectionable video, and extorted Rs4.4 million, while demanding an additional Rs7 million. Upon refusal, the suspect allegedly leaked the video. 

A separate FIR has also been registered over the assault on a government officer during the raid.