Judges trolling: JIT ready to disclose identity of social media activists

ISLAMABAD: The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) engaged in tracking down social media activists involved in trolling the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP), has made headway and is ready to disclose their identity, sources told The News.

A meeting of the JIT members was held at the Ministry of Interior on Friday and discussed day by day progress, performance and mode of operation of the JIT.

The First Information Report (FIR) against five social media activists would be lodged during the coming week after completion of an inquiry against them. The trolling clique also includes journalists working with print and electronic media, while professional bloggers, social media and political activists, affiliated with a specific political party, businessmen and students are found to be involved in trolling activity, sources added.

People engaged in the investigation against trolling for social media activists, told this correspondent that a list of about eight hundred people involved in the trolling rip-off, had been sent to National Database Registration Authority to collect data of the marked social media activists including the connections with the people behind them, added the sources.

“Some people were found involved in trolling judges of the apex court from abroad,” the sources said adding that such bloggers/ social media activists were being marked as ‘identified’. “The number of the social media activists will swell from hundreds to thousands,” the sources said, adding that at the first phase, a list of 500 people involved in trolling was prepared but it swelled to thousands later on.

The people engaged in the investigation said the course of inquiry and investigation would continue till marking of the last troller. “The process of legal action and arrest of the culprits would start soon after completion of the inquiry or investigation,” they added.