Drunken toss: ‘Be drunk and be merry or be gone’

Four men toss family of 5 off roof for trying to stop them from drinking.

GUJRANWALA:

Four drunk men tossed a family of five over the roof of their house after they complained of their rowdy behaviour.

According to police officials, the incident took place in the Girjakh police station precincts on Thursday night, when Karim Town resident Muhammad Nazir’s daughters were cooking on the roof of their house. Nazir’s daughter Mahnoor told police officials that their neighbours shared an adjacent wall to their house. “A large crowd had gathered at the roof and they were having a dinner and drinking alcohol. When they started to jeer at us I called my father,” she said. Mahnoor said that four of the accused jumped over the wall and entered their house. “When my father demanded that they leave and stop making a ruckus they tossed him over the roof,” she said.

Accused Khuram Shehzad, Muhammad Shehzad, Nadeem and Kamran had begun abusing their neighbours and Nazir’s daughters later called their mother Zahra. “I heard my daughters screaming after their father had been pushed out and I ran to see what had happened,” Zahra told police at the hospital, adding “then they pushed me off the roof.” “They kept ranting that we weren’t ‘letting them have fun’ and that we should join them in drinking,” she said. Nazir’s daughter said that the accused had also beaten her and her sisters. When Nazir and his brother Muhammad Ashraf and son Muhammad Abbas came to save Mahnoor the accused pushed them all from the roof.

Neighbours told police that Nazir had injured his spine and was now in a wheelchair, Zahra broke her arm and Riaz broke his leg.

Hospital officials said that Abbas had suffered severe injuries and had broken his jaw. “Fourteen of his teeth broke and he will need major reconstructive surgery,” DHQ Dr Mubeen Zahid said.

Girjakh Police Station House Officer (SHO) Naeem Butt has registered a case and started an investigation. “We have arrested the accused as well as the owners of the house for allowing the incident. We also recovered eleven bottles of liquor from the site,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 13^th, 2011.