Farhan Mallick remanded to FIA for five days in ‘call centre fraud’ case

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KARACHI: A local court on Wednesday sent journalist Farhan Malik to the custody of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for five days in connection with the call center fraud case.

In the first case registered against him last week, Jarano was arrested in a new case on Tuesday instead of being sent to judicial remand as per the court orders.

The Malcolm who worked as its director News for a private news channel and is now the owner of the YouTube channel. Yesterday, in the first case, after the completion of a 4 -day physical remand, he had to receive remand in judicial custody.

According to the latest development, the FIA ​​claimed to have raided a call center a day earlier, alleging that its employees were involved in stealing and cheating data from foreigners.

Two suspects were arrested, who allegedly told authorities that the call center was operating under the orders of Malik.

The FIR states that the suspects, namely Syed Mohammad Atir Hussain and Hassan Najib Alam, along with others, were involved in the use of “fraudulent calls and imitation” by stealing secret financial data of their credit cards, which is allegedly used for misconduct.

“During the inquiry, a raid was raided at the Sweet No. 12 Gulshan -e -Wau Gulshan -e -Gulshan -Wa Gulshan -Wau office, where employees (agents) were illegally rescued by them by security by security by their security and security through security. Will reduce rates.

It added that one of the arrested suspects has revealed that Malcolm is also involved in the patronage of the aforementioned criminal activity.

Today, FIA officials presented Malik to Judicial Magistrate Malir I to hear a new case, and the court then gave him a five -day physical remand of the journalist.

Talking to the media outside the court, Malcol’s lawyer, Advocate Moz Jafri, said that the FIA ​​had kept the journalist in his custody despite a court order.

According to Jaffrey, the law requires that after sending an accused to jail, authorities will have to inform the jail officials before arrest in another case.

Jaffrey added that Malcolm’s family visited several prisons in search of them, but they were not found in any of them. He termed the FIA’s actions as discretion and illegal.

He said the detained journalist was to be presented for the remand tomorrow, but the process was deliberately delayed.

Jaffrey claimed that the FIA ​​raided yesterday and arrested the nominees in the FIR. Based on their statements, Malik was also taken into custody. He termed the allegations as baseless and said that a false case was registered against the country on the same day to justify his arrest.

He said the latest case was registered at a time when the journalist was scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday. He added that the entire sequence of the incidents – case registration, raids and arrests – happened within a single day.

The FIA ​​initially detained a journalist for allegedly violating the Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) prevention and infamy.

The controversial law of Pika was recently amended and journalists across the country have protested against the law, and it is being tried for freedom of expression and efforts are being made to intimidate newspapers and their media.

An FIR was filed against it under several parts of the PECA Act, which was read with Section 190 of the Pakistan Code of Conduct (if it was committed as a result of this act, it was punished and where no clear supply was made for its punishment) and 500 (notorious punishment).

The FIR reported that Malik was allegedly involved in spreading anti -state content.