Reporter booked for sharing graft story against SSP on social media

Khaipur police in Sindh have booked a journalist under different sections of Pakistan Electronic Crime Act (Peca) for publishing a news story in a local Urdu daily accusing Khairpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of corruption and sharing it on his social media.

- Tariq Butt

SSP Rohail Khan Memon said Abdullah Chohan, who writes by his name A.K. Chohan, levelled baseless allegations against him. If the reporter had any evidence to prove his accusations he should produce them, he said.

He said the reporter had launched the defa-mation campaign against him for some time and now even his high-ups, colleagues and subordinate officials, wherever he had been posted, had started asking him about these allegations and suspecting his honesty and integrity.