Dua Zahra case
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been ordered by the Sindh High Court to file legal charges against six online activists.
Her father claims that insulting and scandalous accusations were made against Dua Zahra’s family.
Six social media activists are legally barred from producing or transmitting material by the court as well.
- Pakistan Telecommunication Authority has been ordered by the Sindh High Court to file legal charges against six online activists.
- Her father claims that insulting and scandalous accusations were made against Dua Zahra’s family.
- Six social media activists are legally barred from producing or transmitting material by the court as well.
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After Dua Zahra’s father alleged scandalous and defamatory allegations were made about his family, the Sindh High Court ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to file legal complaints against six social media activists in accordance with the law.
Six social media activists were also legally barred by the court from publishing any hostile, scandalous, or defamatory materials on social media against Zahra’s father and his family, including digital recordings and written text.
Syed Mehdi Ali Kazmi filed the complaint in an effort to get a court order prohibiting some social media activists from defaming him and his family online.
The plaintiff’s attorney claims that the petitioner filed a FIR under the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Rules over the abduction and child marriage of his daughter. He said that the court-appointed medical board had established that his daughter was between the ages of 15 and 16.
He claimed that private social media outlets that were publishing “scandalous and hateful” information about the plaintiff and his family were being blocked and removed by the PTA. He claimed that according to the PTA’s web analysis division, the complaint was not admissible under Rule (I)(v) of the Removal and Blocking of Illegal Online Content (Procedure, Oversight, and Safeguards) Rules 2021 because the facts of the complaints required a thorough evaluation of the evidence by a competent court in order to establish the correct position.
The attorney said that the defendants’ whole body of work was founded on “defamatory, unfounded, and scandalous” statements made against the plaintiff and his entire family, harming the plaintiff’s reputation in public. On social media, he said that the defendants were “mocking” the plaintiff and his family.
Following the plaint’s preliminary hearing, a single bench chaired by Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi sent letters to the PTA and social media activists prohibiting them from broadcasting, publishing, or disseminating any defamatory and scandalous content material against the plaintiff and his family.
The court also mandated that PTA present a thorough report within 15 days and initiate legal action against social media activists in line with the law.
