False claims: Boy ‘possessed by ghost’ sent to jail

Man claims drinking blood of billions of children, police arrest him for ‘dissemination of rumours’.


Kashif Zafar October 23, 2012

BAHAWALPUR:


Two people were sent to jail in Khanpur on Saturday for threatening public order.


Khanpur Civil Judge Shahzad Anwar on Saturday sent two brothers on judicial remand to Rahim Yar Khan Jail till after Eid.

Muhammad Ramazan, 17, and Munawar Ali, 22, were arrested from the Khanpur area earlier in the day. Police said Ramazan declared himself ‘possessed by a ghost,’ set up shop as a spiritual healer and threatened people ‘who do not give alms to the poor.’

Khanpur City SHO Azhar Javed said, “We were receiving reports that Muhammad Ramazan was threatening people.”

“We felt that he was a threat to public order and arrested him,” he said.

The case has been filed under Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) law Section 16 (dissemination of rumours).

Mehboobur Rehman, a resident of the area, told The Express Tribune that Ramazan had started by claiming that he had been possessed by a ghost two months ago.

“He used to set up a stall to sell food. He then started saying that the ghost tells him that everybody must give alms to the poor…he threatened to hurt anyone who does not give charity to a beggar,” Rehman said.

He said that Ramazan had also claimed that he could read the future. He said that he had then started giving out amulets and his brother was helping him in the business.

He said that people started to calling him Tasbeeh-wali Sarkar (the saint with prayer beads) and forty to fifty people began visiting him every day. “He put out a box for donations to arrange dhamaal (sufi dance) and langar (food) for his followers every Thursday,” he said.

Speaking from jail, Muhammad Ramazan told The Express Tribune that he was in fact a ghost named Roshni who had taken possession of Ramazan three years ago.

He said that he had been “drinking the blood of children who urinate under trees since the time of Prophet Adam (peace be upon him).” He claimed that the number of his victims ran into the billions. “Abbas (Ramazan’s cousin) is witness that I choked a boy to death in Nawankot only a few days ago,” he said. Ramazan said he was going to make a marriage proposal to a girl when he reached the age of 18. “If her family refuse, I can destroy the family,” he said.

He said he could cure all acquired diseases.

He said he would kill those who called him a liar. “If the police try to arrest me, I will break their necks,” he said.

Qari Abdul Aziz, a Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) leader, suggested that Ramazan be denied food. “A ghost can provide its host food on its own,” he said.

Published in The Express Tribune, October 23rd, 2012.

COMMENTS (2)

1984 | 11 years ago | Reply

On a lighter note,if a man possessed by a female ghost wants to marry a woman.....Then she must have had a "different" orientation

Mutee | 11 years ago | Reply Ghost? Are you sure things are not being lost in the translation here? The word you should be using is Djinn, unless the concept of "ghost" just turned V2 hijacking all other supernatural forces.
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