{"id":5647,"date":"2025-08-23T21:14:46","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/?p=5647"},"modified":"2025-08-23T21:14:46","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T16:14:46","slug":"maria-b-under-nccia-investigation-over-remarks-about-transgender-community-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/2025\/08\/23\/maria-b-under-nccia-investigation-over-remarks-about-transgender-community-on-social-media","title":{"rendered":"Maria B under NCCIA investigation over remarks about transgender community on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"202\" data-end=\"458\"><strong data-start=\"202\" data-end=\"216\">Islamabad:<\/strong> Renowned fashion designer <strong data-start=\"243\" data-end=\"254\">Maria B<\/strong> is facing an official inquiry by the <strong data-start=\"292\" data-end=\"345\">National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA)<\/strong> over her controversial statements concerning the transgender community, made through her social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"460\" data-end=\"815\">According to sources, Maria B has been <strong data-start=\"499\" data-end=\"525\">served a formal notice<\/strong> by the NCCIA and has been <strong data-start=\"552\" data-end=\"587\">summoned to appear on August 26<\/strong>. The inquiry was initiated after a complaint was filed by <strong data-start=\"646\" data-end=\"686\">Naeem Butt, also known as Seema Butt<\/strong>, a transgender rights activist, who accused Maria B of running a <strong data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"773\">negative campaign<\/strong> against the transgender community online.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"817\" data-end=\"1017\">In preparation for the legal process, Maria B has retained <strong data-start=\"876\" data-end=\"905\">Barrister Mian Ali Ashfaq<\/strong> as her legal counsel. The barrister confirmed that <strong data-start=\"957\" data-end=\"991\">consultations and legal review<\/strong> of the case are underway.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1019\" data-end=\"1349\">\n<p data-start=\"1351\" data-end=\"1617\">The video quickly went viral, prompting <strong data-start=\"1391\" data-end=\"1408\">Punjab Police<\/strong> to conduct a raid and arrest several transgender individuals under allegations of promoting obscenity at the private event. However, a <strong data-start=\"1544\" data-end=\"1587\">local court later dismissed the charges<\/strong>, citing <strong data-start=\"1596\" data-end=\"1616\">lack of evidence<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1619\" data-end=\"1874\">The court ruling stated that no substantial proof had been presented to directly link the arrested individuals to any unlawful activity. As a result, the court <strong data-start=\"1779\" data-end=\"1832\">rejected the request for a 10-day physical remand<\/strong> and acquitted the accused of all charges.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1876\" data-end=\"2041\">The incident has reignited national debates surrounding <strong data-start=\"1932\" data-end=\"1971\">freedom of expression, human rights<\/strong>, and the societal treatment of the transgender community in Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: Renowned fashion designer Maria B is facing an official inquiry by the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) over her controversial statements concerning the transgender community, made through her social media platforms. According to sources, Maria B has been served a formal notice by the NCCIA and has been summoned to appear on August &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":5648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2768],"tags":[2822,2825,160,166,1126,2821,2824,2823,2294],"class_list":["post-5647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news","category-trending","tag-consultations","tag-dismissed","tag-headline","tag-human-rights","tag-islamabad","tag-naeem-butt","tag-physical","tag-punjab-police","tag-youdigital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5649,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5647\/revisions\/5649"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/youdigital.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}