Alleged police harassment: Distraught youth commits suicide outside parliament house
Sources claim Rabbi was ‘kept in jail for a night without any reason’.
Rabbi claimed the police had embroiled him in a fake case and kept him in jail for a night without any reason. PHOTO: FILE
ISLAMABAD:
A 23-year old man committed self-immolation at D-Chowk outside Parliament House on Friday.
ASI Muhammad Nawaz said Fazle Rabbi, a resident of Peshawar who was living in Golra Sharif, sprinkled petrol on himself and set himself on fire at around 4 pm.
He said commuters and policemen present at the spot tried to put out the fire and took him to the Burn Care Unit at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims). Officials at the Burn Care Unit said Rabi sustained third-degree burns. He was put on ventilator, but was pronounced dead at around 7:50pm.
Sources at the unit told The Express Tribune that Rabbi claimed the police had embroiled him in a fake case and kept him in jail for a night without any reason.
“The police were harassing me and I was helpless. The last option I was left with was to commit suicide,” a source quoted Rabbi as saying.
On the other hand, ASI Muhammad Nawaz claimed that Rabi said nothing except, “I don’t want to live anymore.”
After his death, the police tried to locate his family to hand over the body.
In October 2011 an unemployed young man named Raja Khan, 22, a resident of Nauwshahro Feroze in Sindh, committed self-immolation near Parliament House.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 23rd, 2013.
A 23-year old man committed self-immolation at D-Chowk outside Parliament House on Friday.
ASI Muhammad Nawaz said Fazle Rabbi, a resident of Peshawar who was living in Golra Sharif, sprinkled petrol on himself and set himself on fire at around 4 pm.
He said commuters and policemen present at the spot tried to put out the fire and took him to the Burn Care Unit at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims). Officials at the Burn Care Unit said Rabi sustained third-degree burns. He was put on ventilator, but was pronounced dead at around 7:50pm.
Sources at the unit told The Express Tribune that Rabbi claimed the police had embroiled him in a fake case and kept him in jail for a night without any reason.
“The police were harassing me and I was helpless. The last option I was left with was to commit suicide,” a source quoted Rabbi as saying.
On the other hand, ASI Muhammad Nawaz claimed that Rabi said nothing except, “I don’t want to live anymore.”
After his death, the police tried to locate his family to hand over the body.
In October 2011 an unemployed young man named Raja Khan, 22, a resident of Nauwshahro Feroze in Sindh, committed self-immolation near Parliament House.
Published in The Express Tribune, March 23rd, 2013.