KP CM Sohail Afridi booked under Peca over statements against state institutions

ISLAMABAD
A case has been registered against Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi under the Pakistan Electronic Crimes Act (Peca) after his videos circulated on social media allegedly tarnishing the reputation of state and national security institutions.
The First Information Report (FIR), a copy of which is available to Geo News, was lodged at the Cyber Crime Reporting Centre in Islamabad, with a sub-inspector from the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) listed as the complainant. The legal action comes after Afridi gave a media talk outside Adiala jail in which he reportedly made “false, misleading, derogatory, and intimidating” remarks against state institutions. Videos of the remarks were also circulated via the official social media page of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the ruling party in KP.