Man jailed for 8-year on blackmailing ex-fiancee

ISLAMABAD - An Anti-Cyber Crime Court (ACCC) Friday awarded an eight-year imprisonment sentence to an accused person in a case pertaining to uploading of immoral pictures of a girl on social media.

ACCC Judge Tahir Mehmood announced the imprisonment sentence to the accused along with Rs0.5 million fine. The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had registered a case against the accused Muhammad Sajjad on charges of blackmailing his ex-fiancee and uploading her immoral pictures on social medial.

The complainant stated that the accused had maligned her character which led to the termination of her Nikah before ‘rukhsati’. The court announced the sentence to the accused under Sections
20 and 21.