SHC postpones hearing of data theft case.

Karachi -- The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Wednesday refused to hear a petition pertaining to the alleged sale of sensitive data of 115 million Pakistanis on the dark web.

A two-member bench, comprising Justice Omar Sial and Justice Zulfiqar Ali Sangi, presided the hearing of the case. The bench also returned the reply submitted by the federal government on the petition.

We have noted that you file such petitions only for publicity, remarked Justice Sial addressing the petitioner, advocate Tariq Mansoor.

The bench remarked that it could not hear the petition today, and adjourned the hearing indefinitely.

The court will likely conduct further hearings on the petition once it resumes after the summer break.

At an earlier hearing of the case, the petitioner stated before the court that sensitive data of Pakistani citizens had been put up for sale for Rs350 million on the dark web on April 10.

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