Beyond The Grave: Three trespassers arrested

KARACHI: Khawaja Ajmer Nagri police arrested three gravediggers from Zareena Colony graveyard on Friday. They were charged with trespassing. The gravediggers Arshad, Shabbir and Yasin were arrested after police responded to a complaint made by Asad Rashdi. He alleged that the gravediggers made a grave for another body in his mother, Rasheedan Bibi’s grave. Asad told the police that when he came to pray, he noticed that the plaque of his mother’s grave had been changed. An FIR has been registered under section 297 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

Published in The Express Tribune, May 27^th, 2012.