SHC mandates to remove Mehwish Hayat’s defamatory posts

• SHC to remove scandalous material against Mehwish Hayat.
• The Lollywood star Mehwish Hayat has filed a lawsuit.
• Mehwish Hayat has filed a petition with the court.

The Lollywood star Mehwish Hayat has filed a lawsuit against YouTuber Adil Raja for the offensive material he posted online after Kubra Khan did. The responsible authorities were required by the Sindh High Court (SHC) to remove scandalous material against Hayat from all social media sites.

The London Nahi Jaunga star initially requested that the FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing investigate the situation. She nonetheless went to the Sindh High Court due to a lack of development (SHC). The 35-year-old actress is alleged in a petition Hayat submitted to the SHC to be “aggrieved by a social media storm generated and precipitating due to certain videos made by an individual by the name Adil Farooq Raja who claims to be a self-professed ‘geopolitical analyst’ and ‘rights activist’ maintaining a YouTube channel by the name of Soldier Speaks as well as a Twitter handle by the name Soldier Speaks”

She referred to Raja’s accusations as “blatantly untrue, insulting, libellous, malicious, inflammatory, hazardous [and] sensationalising,” and said that they “degrad[ed]” the four “elite models and actresses” he identified in his film by their initials.

Her petition said that following the webcast, a number of social media users on Twitter and Instagram began combining images of Hayat with those of other performers whose initials Raja had pronounced. She claimed that in the video, Raja spelled Hayat’s first initials M and H.“certain social media users intentionally with an interest to malign state institutions and to malign the reputation of the petitioner launched a social media campaign on such a video aired by Mr Raja.”

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Hayat has filed a petition with the court under the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act, 2016, Sections 11 (hate speech), 20 (offences against a natural person’s dignity), 21, and 37 (unlawful online content).

The Dillagi star requested six different types of relief from the court in her petition, including that it order the FIA to act immediately on her complaints, that it order the FIA to investigate and take legal action against the users named in the petition, and that it order the court to declare that the FIA’s inaction during the interim period is a violation of the duties imposed on them by PECA, 2016.

She continues, “the Honourable Court may be pleased to direct the official Respondents/FIA to conclude their inquiries and pass appropriate orders for the prosecution of such individuals, including but not limited to the users mentioned in Para 6 hereinabove, and others as are found to have contravened the provision of PECA, 2016, by damaging the reputation, modesty and dignity of the petitioner through the use of social media platforms as well as causing harm to national integrity and state institutions.”

The SHC gave two-week notifications to the FIA and PTA about the defamation complaint and ordered the FIA to remove the offensive content about Hayat. Speaking to the reporters outside of the court, Hayat expressed her desire for those who had slandered her to face consequences.

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