Court awards four-year jail term to harasser

A local court has sentenced a man to four years in prison along with payment of Rs2 million fine and Rs0.2 million damages for recording immoral videos of a girl and making them go viral on social media.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Ahsan Mehmood Malik while convicting Aamir Abbas, who was arrested in the case of taking immoral pictures and recording videos of student Rafia Asma and uploading them on social media applications, including WhatsApp, awarded him four years imprisonment.

The court also ordered the accused to pay a fine of Rs2 million and another Rs0.2 million as damages to the victim.

 The case was registered against the accused on the complaint of the victim following which he was apprehended by the FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing on June 22, 2022.

A large number of indecent images and videos were also recovered from the mobile phone recovered from the accused’s possession. Further, the evidence regarding the uploading of pictures and videos of the complainant on social media applications was also recovered from the accused’s mobile phone.

After the announcement of judgment, the convict was shifted to Adiala Jail.

Published in The Express Tribune, August 30^th, 2023.