FIA starts action against misuse of social media

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FIA starts action against misuse of social media

ISLAMABAD: Even before the enactment of Prevention of Electronic Crimes (PEC) Act 2016, public bodies have started filing complaints with the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against individuals for alleged misuse of social media to defame the organisation and its management.

The latest complaint, a copy of which is available with The News, has been filed by Comsats Institute of Information Tech**logy (CIIT) Lahore against a former employee for using Facebook for “instigating and misleading the students to stage strikes against the management of Comsats”.

The complaint was filed by Rashid A Khan, Additional Registrar of CIIT Lahore, against a former assistant professor Yasser Majeed Siddiqi for his Facebook posts. According to documents, the Cyber Crime Circle of FIA has started investigating the case and summoned the former CIIT employee for questioning. Senior Investigator Rana Obaidullah Minhas is probing the case.

“A former assistant professor Yasser Majeed Siddiqi, who was ******* from service on account of gross misconduct on 23-01- 2015, is instigating and misleading the students to stage strikes against the management of Comsats for the past many months,” says the complaint.

It says Yasser Siddiqi has launched a vicious campaign of defaming Comsats on social media and “his nefarious design is aimed at taking personal revenge against this institution”. It says the accused has a network of students whom he uses in his malicious designs on the pretext of Dual Degree Programme with Lancaster University, UK which is a sub-judicious matter in the Lahore High Court. The complaints allege that Facebook posts of the accused are damaging the peaceful environment of the institute.

However, talking to The News, Yasser Siddiqi denied all the allegations, saying his job was terminated on 23-01- 2015 without mention of any charge and he was awarded three-month salary in lieu of the **tice period. According to clause 6 of the job contract, a person deserves ** **tice period if his job is terminated on the charge of ‘gross misconduct’.

Siddiqi said he has already filed a writ petition 2902/15 in the Lahore High Court urging the court to declare the **tification illegal and unlawful.

“I am the person who took oath from the students that they would never adopt any violent means for fulfilment of their demands. I led them to file a number of writ petitions in Lahore High Court. Writ Petition **: 3543/15 Mohsin Ilyas vs CIIT etc is the main writ petition,” he said.

Siddiqi said CIIT actually received negative publicity in mainstream media for sacking of its ex-pro rector over fake PhD degree. He said if there is **thing wrong within the CIIT itself then how come mere posting on Facebook wall can damage peaceful environment of the campus. When contacted, an official of the FIA confirmed that investigations are underway on the complaint of CIIT against its former employee.





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