Fact-Check: No, donut shop not sealed following incident involving chief justice
The incident involving the chief justice took place at the Blue Area branch of Crusteez, while authorities had sealed the F6 branch on September 11
Updated Thursday Sep 26 2024
On September 25, footage began circulating on Pakistani social media showing a salesman at a donut shop in Islamabad secretly recording a video of himself while misbehaving with the chief justice of Pakistan and his family.
Soon after, online users shared a picture of a sign reading "sealed" outside the shop, with claims that it had been shut down on the orders of the chief justice.
This claim is false.
Claim
On September 26, a social media user claimed that a few days after Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa was “verbally abused” by a worker at Crusteez Donuts in Islamabad, the bakery had been sealed. The post has been viewed over 23,000 times and liked over 300 times to date.
Other users on social media also alleged that the donut shop had been closed by authorities:
Fact
Crusteez Donuts, where the incident took place, has not been shut down. The picture being circulated online, showing the donut shop as sealed, is actually from September 11, not this week.
Farhan Ahmed, the assistant commissioner in Islamabad, told Geo Fact Check over the phone that the two incidents — the video of the chief justice and the sealing of the donut shop — are unrelated.
"The incident involving the chief justice took place at the Blue Area branch of Crusteez likely sometimes in the summers," Ahmed said. "The branch we sealed on September 11 was located in the F6 area of Islamabad."
Ahmed added that the F6 branch of the donut shop was sealed due to violations related to dengue prevention.
Ahmed’s statement was further corroborated by a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the deputy commissioner of Islamabad. On September 11, the deputy commissioner had shared an image of Crusteez in F6 being sealed due to violations of dengue SoPs. The shop was reopened a few days later.
Ahmed also shared a notification issued in August imposing Section 144 in Islamabad, allowing authorities to take action against establishments that allow the accumulation of water, which could serve as breeding grounds for dengue mosquitoes.
Additionally, a salesman at the Blue Area branch of Crusteez confirmed to Geo Fact Check that the shop is open and business was resuming as normal.
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