FIA Fails to Find Evidence in Sana’s Defamation Case

News Desk

Islamabad: Almost a month after actress Sana Javed filed a case against several people for a “smear campaign” run against her on social media, the FIA closed the case due to a lack of evidence.

Makeup artists and models had come forward to share their experiences of working with the actor and called her out for her poor behavior.

In response, the actor had issued legal notices, claiming that all the things shared online were a part of a “smear campaign” against her. On Friday, the head of the FIA Sindh’s cybercrime wing, Imran Riaz, tweeted that no evidence was found against the actor and therefore the lodged complaint has been closed.

Riaz confirmed to Images that the Twitter account through which the statement about the case was made was authentic but declined to comment on the case any further.

Riaz’s Twitter post read, “The complaint filed by actress Sana against her cyber defamation has been closed. The provided evidence was closely scrutinised by the legal team and the content found was about sharing personal experiences of different co-workers while at work with Sana.” He also wrote that the technical team was also unable to find “any evidence of the planned smear campaign” against her.

His tweets were shared by the people that Sana had mentioned in her legal notice that she filed on March 11. Makeup artists Rhyan , Ikram , Omar Waqar, and stylist Anila took to their Instagram stories and uploaded screenshots of Riaz’s tweets. “What a slap,” wrote Waqar while Murtaza wrote, “what a kick”.

Sana had gone on the offensive after being accused of being rude, unprofessional, and in one case, holding someone hostage in a room. “In the past 72 hours I’ve been subjected to all sorts of lies and fabricated stories, bullying, hate speech, and threats,” Sana had written in her Instagram post.

According to the post, she served notices to three people — makeup artist Waqar, stylist Murtaza and model Manal Saleem. The case began after Saleem posted about an actor who had behaved badly. However, she never named the said actor.

In the pictures of the defamation notice she shared online, Sana had refuted comments that Saleem had made in her story. The legal notices argued that the actress had a following of 6.8 million on Instagram and Saleem’s account saw a 6,000-follower increase after her story was posted, and claimed that it illustrated that the move was “a publicity stunt so as to increase your following at the cost of our client’s goodwill.”

In her post, Sana called the situation a “proper smear campaign” that has been initiated against her by a group of individuals that has “caused severe trauma” not only for her but for her family as well.