Police have registered a case against seven butchers on charges of torturing and recording an video of a differently-abled youth and making it viral on social media.
Police said the suspects including Abu Bakar, Abu Sufiyan, Sher alias Sheera, Allahyar and seven others had set up butcher shops in Mohalla Rasoolpura, Tandlianwala where they tortured a seventeen-year-old differently-abled Mohsin Raza alias Toti Malang. They tied his hands and feet to a pole on suspicion of theft while they tortured him and made a video that went viral on social media.
Imran said, “I had sent my mentally challenged brother Mohsin to get yoghurt at the time of Sehri when they allegedly molested my brother, in reply my brother abused them and escaped. On which suspects tied him to a power pole and tortured him.
The victim's brother demanded that the police officers to arrest the suspects immediately. The named suspects attacked and vandalized the plaintiff, Imran Raza Hashmi's house and threatened to kill him if he does withdraw the case.
After the video of the torture of the accused went viral on social media, the police registered a case against the suspects under different section of PPC including 147(Punishment for r ioting), 149(Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 342(Punishment for wrongful confinement), 355(Assault or criminal force with intent to dishonour person).
Published in The Express Tribune, April 22nd, 2021.
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