KARACHI: A judicial magistrate has granted the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) four-day physical remand of Pakistan Awam Raj Tehreek chief Iqrar ul Hassan.
Iqrar, who was allegedly picked up from his residence in Lahore in the early hours of Monday, has been arrested and booked by the NCCIA for “intentionally disseminating false, fabricated, anti-state and defamatory content with the object of instigating the general public against the state, its institutions and its functionaries”, according to The News.The NCCIA officer investigating the case produced Iqrar before the judicial magistrate (East) on Tuesday and requested his 14-day physical remand for completion of investigation.
He said that the anchorperson was arrested in the present case on October 12 after being informed of the grounds of his arrest. His custody is required for recovery of the mobile phones, laptop(s), and other digital devices, SIMs and media storage used by him for creation, editing, uploading and posting of the impugned content, the investigating officer added.
