{"id":15638,"date":"2022-05-07T15:29:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T10:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=15638"},"modified":"2022-05-07T15:29:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T10:29:18","slug":"fia-approaches-supreme-court-against-revocation-of-peca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/07\/fia-approaches-supreme-court-against-revocation-of-peca\/","title":{"rendered":"FIA approaches Supreme Court against revocation of PECA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday challenged the decision of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the revocation of the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA) in the top court.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The petitioner has sought the Supreme Court (SC) to repeal the order of IHC of April 6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Dr Arif Alvi promulgated an ordinance on February 20 to amend the PECA 2016, making online defamation a non-bailable, cognisable offence. Under the amended laws, the jail term for defamation was also increased from three years to five years. The PTI government had also incorporated Section 20 in the PECA which granted FIA \u2018dominating powers\u2019 regarding cybercrime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on Saturday challenged the decision of the Islamabad High Court (IHC)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.4.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>FIA approaches Supreme Court against revocation of PECA - Rapid News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Dr Arif Alvi promulgated an ordinance on February 20 to amend the PECA 2016, making online defamation a non-bailable, cognisable\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2022\/05\/07\/fia-approaches-supreme-court-against-revocation-of-peca\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FIA approaches Supreme Court against revocation of PECA - 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