Violation of law: Procession organisers booked for using loudspeakers
Three formations of the procession were using them
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RAWALPINDI:
City police have booked organisers of a mourning procession which started from Colonel Maqbool Imambargah on Monday for using loudspeakers despite being duly barred by the authorities.
City Police Station officials registered a case under Section 6 (prohibition of sound system) of the Punjab Sound System Ordinance after a detective foot constable (DFC) reported the use of unlawful sound system by three different groups of mourners in the procession.
According to the FIR, DFC Naseem Sarwar reported to the police station that sound system and loudspeakers were being used by three mourning processions. One group was led by Muhammad Hussain Toori, another by Shabbar Sabzwari, and the third by Tajran-e-Mehdi Tanzeem.
The three formations emerged from Colonel Maqbool Imambargah. The licence for the procession at the imambargah was issued to the elderly Bashir Imam Zaidi, whose relative Saqib Zaidi did the on-the-ground organising.
The reporting constable said that the district authorities had duly forbidden the organisers from using a sound system, but, organisers ignored the ban and used sound systems outside the imambargah.
Under the section leveled in the FIR, violators could undergo imprisonment of up to six months and fined at least Rs25,000. No arrests had been made till the time this report was filed.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2016.
City police have booked organisers of a mourning procession which started from Colonel Maqbool Imambargah on Monday for using loudspeakers despite being duly barred by the authorities.
City Police Station officials registered a case under Section 6 (prohibition of sound system) of the Punjab Sound System Ordinance after a detective foot constable (DFC) reported the use of unlawful sound system by three different groups of mourners in the procession.
According to the FIR, DFC Naseem Sarwar reported to the police station that sound system and loudspeakers were being used by three mourning processions. One group was led by Muhammad Hussain Toori, another by Shabbar Sabzwari, and the third by Tajran-e-Mehdi Tanzeem.
The three formations emerged from Colonel Maqbool Imambargah. The licence for the procession at the imambargah was issued to the elderly Bashir Imam Zaidi, whose relative Saqib Zaidi did the on-the-ground organising.
The reporting constable said that the district authorities had duly forbidden the organisers from using a sound system, but, organisers ignored the ban and used sound systems outside the imambargah.
Under the section leveled in the FIR, violators could undergo imprisonment of up to six months and fined at least Rs25,000. No arrests had been made till the time this report was filed.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 23rd, 2016.