Lahore: Pakistan police have arrested the main accused and two other suspects in the country's biggest child abuse scandal in a village in Punjab bordering India, taking the total number of arrests in the case to nine even as victims' families accused police of protecting the culprits.

At least 280 children were filmed being sexually abused by a gang who used the hundreds of videos they produced to blackmail their parents in Ganda Singh village in Kasur district, some 50 kilometres from here.