Police have registered a case against seven Bagh-i-Jinnah guards for allegedly beating up three Elite Force personnel on Tuesday.
The Elite Force men said they had been attacked as they had tried to stop the guards misbehaving with a woman. The guards said that one Elite Force man had attacked a guard first after he was caught with a prostitute in a compromising position.
Kashif Aslam, the complainant in the FIR, said that he, Rizwan and Bilawal were leaving Bagh-i-Jinnah at around 8pm from the Darbar side gate when they heard a woman cry for help as a security guard was mistreating her. He said that several passers-by saw the incident but did not help the woman.
He said that from what he heard of their argument, the guard and the woman were fighting over money. He heard the woman tell the guard that she couldn’t give him any money as she hadn’t earned any yet.
Aslam said that he and his colleagues stopped the guard, but he called other guards who attacked them with belts. The guards beat the Elite Force personnel and dragged them to their office where four more guards, armed with dagger or pistol, beat them. Aslam said that he alone had to get 14 stitches for facial injuries. He said that a call was made to 15 and the guards fled as soon as the police arrived.
Abbas Sindhu, the head of security at Bagh-i-Jinnah, said that they had filed an application with the superintendent of police (SP) concerned giving their version of events so he might reconsider the FIR.
Sindhu said that a guard named Mukhtar Hussain had caught Aslam in the arms of a prostitute after members of the public had complained about seeing the two “engaging in immoral activities”.
He said the guard had separated them and told the alleged prostitute to leave the park, and that’s when the fighting started. He said the Elite Force men had given Hussain a thorough beating before his colleagues came to the rescue.
Published in The Express Tribune, October 21st, 2011.
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