Fake pir, wife booked for allegedly depriving family of valuables.

Byline: Israr Ahmad

Rawalpindi -- The self-professed spiritual leader, Pir Chaudhry Sohaib Ali along with his wife have been booked by Cyber Crime Wing of Federal Investigation Agency for swindling cash and gold from a family and filming a woman of the family nude to bar them from demanding back the looted stuff, official sources informed The Nation on Wednesday.

Sources said that FIA only came into action after one of its officers approached the family while impersonating himself as PA to the DG and demanded Rs15 million bribes.

The First Information Report was registered with FIA Cyber Crime Circle Rawalpindi Zone on complaint of Mahnoor Waqar, a university student, sources said.

Later, Director General FIA Bashir Memon sacked FIA officer Abdullah Khan Chandio for demanding Rs15 million bribe from victim family while impersonating himself as Personal Assistant to the agency chief in order to get recover the money and gold from fake spiritual leader, they said. An inquiry has also been initiated against the official, sources said.

However, the FIA investigators have not made any arrest so far.

According to sources, Mahnoor Waqar, resident of Abid Majid Road, lodged a complaint with DG FIA in 2017 stating that a fake Pir Chaudhry Sohaib Ali and his wife Rabia alias Maryam developed relations with her father Khawaja Waqar and mother through her uncle Khawaja Imran. 'The couple used to visit my house often during which Sohaib lured my father to sale out all of property and give him the amount for investing in business,' she said.

She said that her parents acted upon advice of the Pir and handed him over Rs40.25 million for property business. She said that Pir paid profit to her family to win their trust. She said that Rabia often borrowed jewellery from her mother to wear it in functions.

She said that Pir Sohaib later told her family that he was cousin of then federal minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and asked her mother and aunt to borrow him antique gold jewellery as wife of Chaudhry Nisar got stunned after seeing Rabia wearing this jewellery and asked him to give her this jewellery to wear in functions.

'Sohaib was given gold ornaments weighing 2 kilograms by my family,' she said. She said that her family demanded back gold and cash from Sohaib after he stopped paying profit of lands. Mahnoor alleged Rabia called her and requested to her flat to take her daughter to home as she had to go somewhere.

'As I reached the flat, Sohaib...