child pornography case
KARACHI: A local court on Wednesday rejected an application filed by a seminary teacher seeking bail in a case pertaining to a child pornography case. The judicial magistrate observed that the accused faces serious charges with concrete evidence available on record to corroborate them. “The accused is not entitled to any concession at this stage of the trial,” the court ruled. According to the prosecution, the accused, a religious tutor, was arrested over allegations of child pornography and harassing a teenage girl. A mobile phone was recovered from his possession with obscene images of the minor victim in the device. The FIA’s Cyber Crime Circle had arrested him on a complaint lodged by a woman. The complainant said her daughter had been physically abused by the religious teacher who took her obscene pictures and later used them to harass and blackmail her, demanding money. The case has been registered under Sections 22 (spamming) and 24 (legal recognition of offences committed in relation to information system) of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 and Section 109 (abetment) of the Pakistan Penal Code. TLTP
