Landa Bazaar shopkeepers beat up a man for posing as the Railway Police district superintendent (DSP).
DC Road resident, fifty-year-old Asghar campaigned against a series of encroachments on G-Road Sheranwala, saying that he was the deputy superintendent Railway Police and that he had the authority to remove the shops and stalls. Asghar also beat up shopkeepers saying that he had not yet received extortion money from them to spare their shops.
The shopkeepers asked Asghar to show them his identity card but he refused. He later said that he had come from Lahore but when local police confirmed he was a fraud the crowd pelted him with stones.
The shopkeepers beat him with shoes and handed him over to the police.
Landa Association president Saeed Khan said that Asghar had beat up several shopkeepers demanding money.
“He claimed he was only ‘removing’ encroachments and charging a fee but he was extorting from us,” Khan said.
Police officials said they had taken Asghar into custody and were conducting a thorough investigation.
Published in The Express Tribune, April 02nd, 2011.
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