PESHAWAR ( MEDIA REPORT )
Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Tuesday issued release order of a chartered accountant on bail who has been charged with creating a fake account on face book in the name of a girl and uploading objectionable videos on it.
A single bench of Justice Syed Afsar Shah issued the release order on bail after hearing both parties and the state lawyer.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), Cyber Crimes Wing, had charged the chartered accountant, Kashif, on a complaint of a junior women employee Aneela Naeem, under sections 36 and 37 of the Electronics Transition Ordinance ETO 2002.
Section 36 of ETO 2002 penalises the violation of privacy with imprisonment up to seven years wheras Section 37 of same penalizes the damage to information system with imprisonment up to seven years.
During hearing of the bail petition, the petitioner’s lawyer submitted before the bbench that the petitioner was working as chartered accountant in Peshawar.
He submitted that the FIA had wrongly charged the petitioner under sections 36 and 37 of the ETO, as he neither made a fake account of girl nor uploaded her videos of the complainant he obtained from CCTV cameras in the office.
The lawyer said that the petitioner had only sent videos to the complainant on her email for blackmailing or other purpose charge in section 507 of PPC ( sexual harsassment at workplaces). He requested the court to released the petitioner on bail.
2016-08-26