NCCIA officer abducted from Islamabad was probing Ducky Bhai case: IHC told

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police on Friday told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) Deputy Director Muhammad Usman, who was abducted from the federal capital earlier this month, had also been investigating the case involving TikToker Ducky Bhai.

YouTuber Saad-ur-Rehman — popularly known as Ducky Bhai — is currently on judicial remand in a case related to the alleged promotion of an online gambling app.

Islamabad police officials informed the court that not only Usman but other members of the investigation team probing Duckey Bhai have also gone missing. The case, they added, was being investigated by Lahore police.

When IHC Judge Justice Azam Khan took up the case on Usman’s recovery, police told the court that they had so far failed to trace the missing officer. The IHC granted police another week to locate him by extending the three-day deadline given earlier.

During the hearing, Justice Khan directed police to obtain and analyse the missing officer’s WhatsApp data, remarking, “We are giving you one week — the goal is to resolve the issue, not just seek new dates.”

Advocate Raja Rizwan Abbasi, representing Usman’s wife Rozina, told the court that she, too, has been missing since October 20, shortly after filing a petition in the IHC seeking her husband’s recovery.

Investigators said that Rozina had travelled from Lahore to Islamabad, with available records up to October 18.

Her last known address was on Empress Road, Lahore, but her phone has remained switched off. When police visited the residence, they found it locked and were told that the couple’s children were also missing.

Abbasi informed the court that Rozina had received a threatening call, warning her to withdraw the petition.

Justice Khan noted that since the husband lived in Islamabad and the wife in Lahore, she might be staying with her relatives — though the lawyer questioned whether she had gone there voluntarily.

Muhammad Usman was abducted from the basement parking area of Zara Heights in Islamabad’s H-13 sector. CCTV footage showed four armed men stopping his car and forcibly taking him away in a white Corolla.

Police said Usman’s last known location was in the F-6 area, and CCTV footage from the vicinity had been reviewed. They added that access to his WhatsApp data could prove key to tracing him.

The court accepted police’s request for more time and granted one additional week to recover the missing officer, adjourning the hearing until October 31.