Blasphemous content from social media remove within four months. LHC

LAHORE ( MEDIA REPORT )

Lahore High Court (LHC) has strictly ordered information technology ministry to remove blasphemous content from social media within four months.

Justice Athar Mahmood heard the case during which the petitioner told the court that profane material has not been deleted from the social media despite court’s directives. He said that it comes under contempt of court to not follow its orders and requested to remove such sacrilegious content immediately.
The court has directed the concerned authorities including home and information ministries to submit report and erase the stuff in four months.
On the other hand, LHC has reserved decision on the case pertaining to blackmailing citizens through fake accounts on Facebook and Twitter filed by law expert Ishtiaq Chaudhry.

Courtesy…The Time of Islamabad