Man suspected of kidnapping beaten up by mob in Lahore

Enraged people claim that the suspect, accompanied with a woman, was trying to kidnap a child

LAHORE ': A suspected kidnapper was caught and thrashed by a mob in the  Ghaziabad neighbourhood of Lahore on Monday.

The angry people claimed that the suspect was trying to kidnap a child from Dhobi Ghaat Daroghawala. The suspect was accompanied by a woman too.

The mob also blocked the road and shouted slogans against law enforcers. A heavy contingent of police, led by senior police officers, reached at the scene and tried to take the suspect into their custody but the enraged people refused to comply. Upon which, more police personnel had to be called in.



The mob got hold of the suspect till filing of this report and police were negotiating with them.

This is not the first incident of vigilante justice, in which people took law into their hands on suspicion of kidnapping. On the night of July 30, traffic wardens and Dolphin officials tortured a driver of Edhi ambulance on suspicion of kidnapping. The driver was transporting 12 children recovered during search operation of the police to Edhi Home Gulberg.