Jhelum Factory Burning: Key suspect arrested, remanded

An anti-terrorism court on Friday sent Muhammad Akram Siddiqi, the suspect, to Adia Jail on 14-day judicial remand

RAWALPINDI:
Police have arrested a key suspect of the Jhelum factory burning incident. An anti-terrorism court on Friday sent Muhammad Akram Siddiqi, the suspect, to Adia Jail on 14-day judicial remand. A mob had blocked the GT Road and set fire to a chip board factory in Jhelum on November 20, 2015, after a factory staffer was accused by another staffer of burning pages of the Holy Quran.  


Published in The Express Tribune, January 2nd, 2016.