The judges asked the lawyer to convince them if the plea is even maintainable for hearing at the high court. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
A*, a young lady who claimed to be a brilliant student and a frequent user of the social networking website Facebook, went to the Sindh High Court so that the relevant authorities can be asked to delete her allegedly fake profile page from the site.
Narrating A’s story, Muneer Ahmed Khan, her lawyer, said that A was engaged to her relative but before the wedding could take place, she said her fiancé’s brother created a Facebook account by her name.
Whoever was operating the fake account had obtained her personal pictures and shared it for public viewing, her lawyer told the judges. Showing a bunch of photocopies of the allegedly fake page, the lawyer said that the account holder had posted a lot of immoral and unethical pictures “just to defame the petitioner and create hurdles in her marriage”.The lawyer claimed that his client felt as if she has lost her reputation and the integrity of her family.
A* lodged several complaints with the law enforcing agencies but they did not bother to take action against the accused, the lawyer said. In order to get the fake page deleted, two applications were also submitted to the PTA but they did not act either, he added.
After the initial hearing, the bench - headed by Justice Ahmed Ali M. Sheikh - issued notices to the respondents to submit their replies by July 9. The judges asked the lawyer to also convince them if the plea is even maintainable.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 14th, 2013.
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... What did I just read? :/
It's a serious offence, and 90% of our men are cheap enough to act like this because they are taught nothing better at home. This is very normal, the only this not normal is that this brave girl has decided to take these men to court and deserves all the support she can get.