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Sunday, July 19, 2009
By Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: The Cyber Crime Circle of the Federal Investigation (FIA) and police have jointly achieved a unique breakthrough by successfully tracing and arresting a person found involved in using the Internet to disseminate his highly obnoxious and blasphemous thoughts about the Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
On the complaint of Ansar Abbasi, Editor Investigations, The News, and following initial investigations held by the IT Wing of the Jang Group, the FIA traced the accused through the obnoxious e-mail and got him arrested for allegedly committing blasphemy. This is the first case of its nature in Pakistan where an accused has been arrested for committing blasphemy through the Internet.
The FIR, under Section 295-C of the CrPC, has been registered in police station Gizri of Defence, Karachi. The FIR No is 350 and the accused arrested by the FIA is Murad, who is a middle-aged man and father of four. He lives in Karachi but has his restaurant business in the UK.
The accused is alleged to have sent an e-mail to Ansar Abbasi, at his official e-mail address, in response to the column of the senior journalist that appeared in the daily Jang on June 29. The accused used Dr Omar Zia as his name and used khayyam_o@yahoo.com as the e-mail containing highly blasphemous material.
On June 30, another e-mail from the same address was sent to Ansar Abbasi, who initially took up the matter with the top Jang Group management, which immediately directed its IT wing to collect all the necessary details about the sender of these blasphemous e-mails.
After the basic details collected by the Jang Groups IT men, the case was formally referred to the Cyber Wing of the FIA, which probed the matter and concluded that the sender of these blasphemous e-mails was in Karachi.
After certain other counter checks in an extremely secret manner, the FIA completed it probe and then raided the house of the accused Murad, got him arrested besides confiscating his laptop that was used to send the obnoxious e-mails to the Editor Investigations daily The News.
The Cyber Wing of the FIA discovered that the accused was sending similar blasphemous material to several other people.
Since the Prevention of Electronic Crime Ordinance (PECO) does not have any provision covering the serious offence of blasphemy, therefore, the case was referred to the Karachi Police after the accused was arrested by the FIA under Section 5 of the FIA Act. The accused was probed by the concerned Cyber Crime Circle of the FIA in Karachi under Section 20 of PECO.
Later, on the advice of the FIA, a fresh complaint was lodged with the Karachi Police by Ansar Abbasi, reporting the receipt of blasphemous e-mails because PECO was inadequate to be applied in such a serious offence. On receipt of the said complaint and following the investigations carried out by the FIA, an FIR was formally lodged by the Karachi Police against the accused on blasphemy charges.
According to FIA Cyber Crime Circle chief Shahid Nadeem Baloch, it is a great achievement for them to have successfully traced this case of cyber crime and even getting arrested the accused after a vigil of many days. Baloch said that the Circle was capable of checking cyber crime in the country.
By Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: The Cyber Crime Circle of the Federal Investigation (FIA) and police have jointly achieved a unique breakthrough by successfully tracing and arresting a person found involved in using the Internet to disseminate his highly obnoxious and blasphemous thoughts about the Holy Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
On the complaint of Ansar Abbasi, Editor Investigations, The News, and following initial investigations held by the IT Wing of the Jang Group, the FIA traced the accused through the obnoxious e-mail and got him arrested for allegedly committing blasphemy. This is the first case of its nature in Pakistan where an accused has been arrested for committing blasphemy through the Internet.
The FIR, under Section 295-C of the CrPC, has been registered in police station Gizri of Defence, Karachi. The FIR No is 350 and the accused arrested by the FIA is Murad, who is a middle-aged man and father of four. He lives in Karachi but has his restaurant business in the UK.
The accused is alleged to have sent an e-mail to Ansar Abbasi, at his official e-mail address, in response to the column of the senior journalist that appeared in the daily Jang on June 29. The accused used Dr Omar Zia as his name and used khayyam_o@yahoo.com as the e-mail containing highly blasphemous material.
On June 30, another e-mail from the same address was sent to Ansar Abbasi, who initially took up the matter with the top Jang Group management, which immediately directed its IT wing to collect all the necessary details about the sender of these blasphemous e-mails.
After the basic details collected by the Jang Groups IT men, the case was formally referred to the Cyber Wing of the FIA, which probed the matter and concluded that the sender of these blasphemous e-mails was in Karachi.
After certain other counter checks in an extremely secret manner, the FIA completed it probe and then raided the house of the accused Murad, got him arrested besides confiscating his laptop that was used to send the obnoxious e-mails to the Editor Investigations daily The News.
The Cyber Wing of the FIA discovered that the accused was sending similar blasphemous material to several other people.
Since the Prevention of Electronic Crime Ordinance (PECO) does not have any provision covering the serious offence of blasphemy, therefore, the case was referred to the Karachi Police after the accused was arrested by the FIA under Section 5 of the FIA Act. The accused was probed by the concerned Cyber Crime Circle of the FIA in Karachi under Section 20 of PECO.
Later, on the advice of the FIA, a fresh complaint was lodged with the Karachi Police by Ansar Abbasi, reporting the receipt of blasphemous e-mails because PECO was inadequate to be applied in such a serious offence. On receipt of the said complaint and following the investigations carried out by the FIA, an FIR was formally lodged by the Karachi Police against the accused on blasphemy charges.
According to FIA Cyber Crime Circle chief Shahid Nadeem Baloch, it is a great achievement for them to have successfully traced this case of cyber crime and even getting arrested the accused after a vigil of many days. Baloch said that the Circle was capable of checking cyber crime in the country.
