The Islamabad High Court has declared that registering a case on acontroversial tweet by the FIA is beyond its jurisdiction.
The Islamabad High Court on Saturday released verdict in a case pertainingto a campaign on social media against army leadership after the change ofgovernment in April.
IHC Justice Babar Sattar while accepting a petition of a citizen, KashifFareed, ordered the FIA to quash a case which was lodged against him onposting a controversial tweet.
While declaring that it was beyond FIA’s jurisdiction to register cases oncontroversial tweets, the court chided the Federal Investigation Agencysaying ‘the agency has made fun of the state by registering such cases’.
The court observed that by registering such cases, the FIA meant to put anillegal censorship on freedom of speech.
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In its verdict, the court observed that posting a tweet in a trend did notsuggest that the crime was committed. Crime is committed only when theperson says something wrong in his own words in his tweet, the court added.
The court further remarked that it was a tragedy that the FIA wanted tocreate doubts in the minds of public by making criminal cases on suchtweets.
