WATCH: PTI leader misbehaving with Hyderabad police 'over smoking'

Hingoro says he was videotaped as part of a conspiracy when he visited the police station to talk to a victim

A video in which Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Ali Mohammad Hingoro is seen admonishing and confronting police officials in Hyderabad has gone viral on social media, Express News reported.

The party's former Hyderabad district president was seen in the Maki Shah Police Station exchanging heated arguments with on-duty ASI Sajid Ilyas while smoking a cigarette.

Ilyas could be heard telling the PTI leader to stop smoking the cigarette inside the police station, to which Hingoro replies, "now you dare to teach me how to behave".

"It's not like I'm smoking chars or anything; its just a cigarette," he added. Hingoro went on to say, "Our job is to fix the police force and that is exactly what I'll do".

SHO Salman Farooqi told media that "a resident's car had rammed into a transformer, leading to electricity outage in the area".



Farooqi said that the transformer belonged to a private company. He added that they brought both parties to the police station to bring about a settlement in to the issue when Hingoro stormed inside the building with 25 men and began hurling threats at the officials there. He said that a report in to the incident has been sent to the authorities.

Meanwhile, the PTI leader also came forward saying," the driver of the car that met the accident came from a destitute background, and police had sought Rs500,000 for the damages caused". "I had reached the police station with the driver's family to protest against police's demand".

Hingoro added that inside the premises of the police station, a man in civvies began misbehaving with him to provoke him into reacting. The footage, he added, was later posted on the social media.

He added that he would address a news conference to put forward his side of the story.


Video Courtesy: Pak Tube 24