KARACHI: The issue involving a social media influencer allegedly involved in a Rs420 million ballot committee (BC) scam took a turn on Tuesday when she approached a sessions court seeking protection against harassment.
The sessions court issued notices to the SSP-complaint cell and Sharea Faisal SHO on the application of Sidra Khalil Humaid asking the officials to file their comments till Dec 14.
Ms Humaid moved the court seeking protection from a number of people, who accused her of depriving them of their huge amount of money in the name of ballot committees, better known as ‘BC’.
The applicant’s counsel, Kamran Alam, stated that his client was being alleged of running an online financial scam despite the fact that she neither sold any product nor used any advertisement on any online platform.
He stated that it was a form of traditional way of collecting money from different people, pool in the same and then return it to the investor/members on their turn.
The counsel said that Ms Humaid had simply asked her investors on the social media to not panic and their money would be returned in the coming months.
He argued that such an announcement on the social media does not come within the meaning of committing an online fraud.
He stated that the applicant was ready to return the money to every genuine investor, but alleged that many people with fake claims had also turned up to claim the money from his client despite the fact that she owed nothing to them…
