A boutique buyer in Rawalpindi has been appointed beneath the accordant sections of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) afterwards a video of cartage badge appropriation a “wrongly anchored agent went viral on amusing media”.
The case, the additional to be registered beneath Peca in Rawalpindi, was registered at Cantt Badge Station on the complaint of Cartage Warden Imran Sikandar.
According to the FIR — which includes sub-section 1D of Section 21, the boutique buyer had uploaded a video on amusing media wherein the cartage badge were appropriation a “wrongly anchored vehicle” from alfresco the ship.
“The video was aggregate to abet accessible abhorrence adjoin the cartage police,” the FIR added.
The federal government alien and anesthetized the amendments to the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act in January 2025.
The new amendments add Section 26(A) to Peca, which seeks to penalise perpetrators of “fake news” online. It says anyone who carefully spreads, displays, or transmits apocryphal advice acceptable to account fear, panic, or agitation in association may face up to three years’ imprisonment, a accomplished of up to Rs2 million, or both.
Last week, the Rawalpindi Badge registered the aboriginal case beneath the Peca and arrested the accused, Muhammad Rehan, for an inappropriate column on amusing media. The accused was after confused to jail, he added.
“Breaking the law, misinformation and abrogating advertising cannot be accustomed beneath the guise of abandon of expression,” the agent said.
Action would be taken beneath PECA on any column based on misinformation or adjoin the accompaniment and law and order, he added.
