JIT to reveal identity of social media activists involved in trolling judges

• Trollers include bloggers, journalists and activists, among others.
• FIR to be registered once JIT completes inquiry against trollers.
• List of 500 trollers was prepared, which increased to thousands.

ISLAMABAD: The identities of social media activists involved in trolling judges — particularly Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa — online will be revealed by the joint investigation team (JIT) after making headway in tracking them down, The News reported citing sources.

In a meeting of the JIT member, held at the Interior Ministry on Friday according to the sources, a discussion pertaining to the day-by-day progress, performance and mode of operation was conducted.

Following the completion of the team's inquiry, a first information report (FIR) against at least five social media activists will be lodged in the coming week.

Those identified in the trolling include professional bloggers, social media and political activists — affiliated with a specific political party — businessmen, students and journalists working with print and electronic media, the sources said.

People engaged in the investigation against trolling for social media activists, told this correspondent that a list of about 800 people involved in the trolling rip-off, had been sent to the National Database Registration Authority (Nadra) to collect data on 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 the 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.