 SARGODHA: A violent mob set a police post in Farooqa, Sahiwal tehsil, on fire after a sub-inspector allegedly hit a two-month-old baby and desecrated the Quran.
| What'd he do? Hit the baby with the Koran? |
According to the protestors, a police team led by SI Muhammad Mukhtar raided Muhammad Ramzan's house after Amir Khichi complained that Ramzan owed him money.
| "We wants our grease, see?" |
The SI allegedly 'tortured' the two-month-old baby of Ramzan's sister Kausar, at which she brought out the Quran.
| "Leave the baby alone or I'll hit you with this holy book!" |
The SI allegedly threw the holy book on the ground.
| "That's fer yer holy book!" |
News of the incident caused anger among locals, who protested and set the police post ablaze.
| "Aaaar! Getcher torches an' pitchforks and swarm the cop shoppe!" |
Dr Muhammad Naeem Khan, the DPO in Sargodha, denied that the SI had desecrated the Quran or hit the baby.
The DPO told reporters on Sunday afternoon that "miscreants" had spread rumours and provoked people to set the police post ablaze, thus destroying police records.
The DPO said that a case had been registered against 64 people for torching the Farooqa police post of Sahiwal police station and 47 of them had been arrested. The police were also considering registering a case for violating Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code and using loudspeakers in mosques to instigate the protest.
| When there's a riot there's always a mosque involved. Have they given any thought to taking the loudspeakers out of the mosques? Followed, perhaps, by the loudmouths? |
The DPO said that a five-member committee consisting of two SPs, the Sargodha ASP, and Sahiwal and Sillanwali DSPs had been formed to investigate the incident. |