No special treatment: Woman held for assaulting police official
Suspect assaulted policewoman after refusing to let her handbag get checked
PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
The police have arrested a woman on Saturday for allegedly attacking a policewoman who was attempting to search her bag at the entrance of the district courts.
Constable Amreen Razzaq stated in her complaint that she stopped a woman, later identified as Sundas Fareed, at one of the entrance gates of the district courts in F-8 Markaz and demanded that she allow her to check her handbag. Fareed allegedly objected to the search, saying she was in a hurry.
After the police official went ahead with the search anyway — as was her duty — Fareed allegedly yelled at her. “She tried to hit me with a file she was carrying, scratched my face with her nails and also bit my arm and ripped my uniform,” Razzaq stated in the complaint.
Farid was arrested immediately after the incident and an FIR was registered against her at the Women Police Station.
The constable was later taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences for medical treatment.
It has become commonplace for people, particularly lawyers, to complain about the mandatory security checks at the entrance gates of the district courts.
A civil defence official who works near the courts said that he regularly sees lawyers slapping away policemen’s hands when they try to check them at the entrances.
Security at the courts was enhanced after a terrorist attack at the site two years back. A judge was among those killed in the attack.
Checking was further enhanced after a journalist smuggled a gun into the Sindh Assembly building in Karachi by taking advantage of the relaxed checking that regular visitors to a number of high security government buildings are put through.
On May 4, the police booked former Senate chairman Nayer Hussain Bokhari and his son for assaulting and intimidating a police official who had stop them for body checks.
Bokhari and his son, Jarar Hussain Bokhari, have been granted bail by a sessions court. The court will take up the case against them once the police complete investigation is completed and a chargesheet submitted in court.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 5th, 2016.
The police have arrested a woman on Saturday for allegedly attacking a policewoman who was attempting to search her bag at the entrance of the district courts.
Constable Amreen Razzaq stated in her complaint that she stopped a woman, later identified as Sundas Fareed, at one of the entrance gates of the district courts in F-8 Markaz and demanded that she allow her to check her handbag. Fareed allegedly objected to the search, saying she was in a hurry.
After the police official went ahead with the search anyway — as was her duty — Fareed allegedly yelled at her. “She tried to hit me with a file she was carrying, scratched my face with her nails and also bit my arm and ripped my uniform,” Razzaq stated in the complaint.
Farid was arrested immediately after the incident and an FIR was registered against her at the Women Police Station.
The constable was later taken to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences for medical treatment.
It has become commonplace for people, particularly lawyers, to complain about the mandatory security checks at the entrance gates of the district courts.
A civil defence official who works near the courts said that he regularly sees lawyers slapping away policemen’s hands when they try to check them at the entrances.
Security at the courts was enhanced after a terrorist attack at the site two years back. A judge was among those killed in the attack.
Checking was further enhanced after a journalist smuggled a gun into the Sindh Assembly building in Karachi by taking advantage of the relaxed checking that regular visitors to a number of high security government buildings are put through.
On May 4, the police booked former Senate chairman Nayer Hussain Bokhari and his son for assaulting and intimidating a police official who had stop them for body checks.
Bokhari and his son, Jarar Hussain Bokhari, have been granted bail by a sessions court. The court will take up the case against them once the police complete investigation is completed and a chargesheet submitted in court.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 5th, 2016.