According to the Karachi police, “false news” is being propagated by society’s “enemies” on social media about a female employee who was supposedly gang-raped by her coworkers at denim manufacturing giant Artistic Milliners in Korangi, Karachi.
Outrage over the alleged gang rape spread quickly on social media on Wednesday. According to other stories, the employee in question may have even passed away.
The Korangi SSP, however, claimed that after an investigation by SDPO Korangi, it was discovered that the claims were made in an effort to harm the name of Artistic Milliners by a phoney Facebook channel called “Dhoom Plus.”
“It was an attempt to defame the reputation of the company by Sagir Buledi press reporter and member of Sindh Sajagi Labour Federation, who is operating fake Dhoom plus channel on Facebook,” the Korangi SSP said in a letter to the secretary-general of the Korangi Association of Trade and Industry.
Meanwhile, DIG East Muqaddas Haider claimed that exceedingly inappropriate information was going viral on social media, linking recordings of a woman and the alleged rape to the facility.
He claimed to have personally confirmed that there was no such event in any of the factories in the Korangi industrial region.
“No one has any details about who the alleged victim was, where she lived, where her body was taken, which police station investigated the matter or where her post-mortem was done,” she said.
The official claimed that these false reports are being circulated by the nation’s and society’s enemies.
He stated that those responsible for disseminating false information will be identified and punished.
