Rawalpindi:
Rawalpindi traffic police filed a FIR against a businessman under the law on electronic crimes (PECA), 2016 for pretending to have been a “misleading video” with regard to the abolition of cars stored in violation of rules, which raises concerns concerning the abusive use of the country’s cybercrime law.
A FIR was registered at the Cantonment Police Station under Peca, 2016 on the complaint of a director of the city’s traffic of the city Imran Sikandar. According to Sikander, he and his staff came across a video on Tiktok, published from the story of a Rizwan singer.
The video showed a car wrongly parked outside Hussain Autos on Cachemir Road in the city of Garrison. An appropriate Challan ticket had been issued for the violation.
However, the FIR said that the video had been presented in a deceptive manner.
“The owner of Hussain Autos would have created and broadcast a deceptive and malicious video to encourage hatred and public agitation against the police. Such actions are considered an offense under the PECA law, 2016,” said the FIR. Police have now launched an investigation.
In January, the government changed the 2016 PECA in the midst of the protest of journalists’ organizations.
Recently, a case was registered against a citizen of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa under the law of cybercrime for having questioned the integrity of the Official Committee for the Moon Observation. Earlier, only FIA was authorized to record cases under PECA, 2016.
