LAHORE: The Punjab government has sent its first-ever warning notice to actor Hamza Ali Abbasi for making negative propaganda against the government through social media. The prosecution department of the Punjab government has sent warning letter to actor Hamza Abbasi alleging that his August 3, 2016 Facebook page claimed that in three months over 900 child kidnappings occurred, which include 400 such incidents from Lahore alone. The copies of warning letters available, bearing signature of Additional Secretary Prosecution Mahmood Hassan, states that the official record shows the number of children went missing over the last three months is less than one third compared to Hamza Abbasi’s allegation on Facebook. The letter stated that the Abbasi’s post was exaggerated and it created sense of insecurity in the general public. It is further communicated through the warning letter that Abbasi had not verified the information so he should immediately take corrective action and acknowledge his error. The letter warned Abbasi that in case he did not seek apology for disseminating wrong information, the government would be constrained to initiate legal action against him for spreading rumours which created panic in the public at large. Prosecution department officials claimed that they would get a case registered against Hamza Ali Abbasi under section of 505 of PPC under which he could awarded seven years imprisonment along with fine. The Prosecution department has sent another notice to a citizen Muhammad Hassan Feroze under similar charges that he had stated in a post on his Facebook page that two kids went missing from his neighbourhood and their bodies were subsequently found with many organs missing and that their parents, who lived in EME Society were in a state of shock. However, the official record shows that no such incident had taken place and the said Facebook Post was malicious and calculated to spread panic in public at large. Hamza Ali Abbasi claimed that he had taken the figures from a national English newspaper so the government should take action against the newspapers management instead of sending warning notice to him.