LAHORE- Lahore’s district court has directed Facebook and Instagram toprovide details of ‘fake accounts’ allegedly involved in defaming singerAli Zafar.
In a private TV channel interview last week, Zafar claimed that afterfellow singer Meesha Shafi accused him of sexual harassment in April 2018,she launched a smear campaign on social media against him.
He said that ‘fake accounts’ were tasked to post lies about him and that hewill request FIA’s cyberbullying unit to look into the matter.
The FIA’s Cyber Crime Circle in Lahore has completed initial inquiry intothe matter and have named Instagram accounts sanasamir91, sallzjay22 anddeeenz82 as committing offenses punishable under Prevention of ElectronicCrimes Act (PECA) 2016 by “uploading [Ali Zafar’s] personal pictures withobnoxious/defamatory content to damage his repute in family and society,”stated the court order.
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Lahore district has asked Facebook to present the IP logs and basicsubscriber data of the accounts.
