Sidra Humaid, a Karachi-based woman who is accused of stealing 42 crore through committees, has urged the police to provide her security from her victims.
The accused has publicly confessed on Facebook to messing up the committees. She announced that she has gone bankrupt and had no means to pay off her committees. Sidra claims that people backed out after taking their first slots. Moreover, she appeals to the people to keep paying committees so she can reimburse those in the queue.
According to an estimate by her victims, Sidra managed 117 WhatsApp groups with hundreds of members. The groups were named Group savings. The prime purpose of those groups was to collect money in “committees” without any legal document or proof. The people hence had no idea of where their money was getting on.
Sidra has now applied to the additional sessions Judge-X (East) under Sections 22-A and 22-B of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), seeking orders to the police to provide her security from citizens who have indicted her of knocking over them in the name of the committees.