Punjab

Dancing girls move court to take action against cops

Three women who were forced to perform a ‘mujra’ by a police official move court to take action against cops...

Express November 28, 2010

GUJRANWALA: In the Kamonke police station chowki, near Gujranwala, three women who were forced to perform a ‘mujra’ by a police official moved the court to take action against the cops involved.

The women said that the police officials had forced them to remove their clothes and dance all night. The police allegedly also stole Rs 200,000 and mobile phone from the girls after they had returned from a wedding that same night.

In their application to the district and session judge, the three women said that Kamonke police sub inspector Munawar Shaheed Abid Farooq and constables’ Muhammad Shahid, Sajid and Muhammad Usman arrested them when they were returning from Riyasat’s wedding in the area and took them to a police chowki.

The police officials then forced the women to remove their clothes and dance to the song ‘Munni badnaam hui darling tere lie’ all night. When they refused they were tortured and the police threatened to nominate them in fake cases and also registered a case against them in the Saddar police station.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 28^th, 2010.

This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:

Correction: November 29, 2010

The headline has been reworked to remove content deemed insensitive.

COMMENTS (22)

Shefali | 13 years ago | Reply I'm not conservative, but item songs taking female names are quite pitiful.So are the men who take advantage of their position to torture weaker section of society.

MSK | 13 years ago | Reply AOA to all readers, I would like to add few things, First of all the act that these women were doing is against the law, People who hired them is against the law, people who have closed eyes on such sociall crimes are also criminals. All those parties, wedding, Cinemas, groups and places who are giong to have such events of dancing and alcohal drinking must be treated with hard hand. Secondly all those video shops and mini VCR cinemas must be cleared and more playgrounds should be provided with faclities for youth. Thirdly, which is the sad one, is that majority of the people have lost the islamic values and dignity in their life, work and practice, that is the reson we have got corrupt leaders in our country. May Allah protect us from such trouble times. Salam

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User | 13 years ago | Reply these girls tell lie

Hassan | 13 years ago | Reply its better to fire and finish police department in Pakistan. and court Marshall all of them give charge to Rangers who will directly report primarily PAKISTAN ARMY then Civil Government.

Suliman | 13 years ago | Reply it's one of the recent heinous act of Punjab Police, Obviously when criminals are hired to safeguard the society, such incidents can be seen randomly

waqas | 13 years ago | Reply Agreed to all of them!!! please don't sell adversity!

dholan channa | 13 years ago | Reply

          it is the matter of shame that our police is forcing the women to do such things which are totally out of manners. i want to ask from such police officials that is ther no muni in your homes?

Muhibullah | 13 years ago | Reply The police have forced some women to dance in the nude, this is an outrage. It scarcely matters whether they were 'dancing girls' or not. Today it is dancing girls tomorrow it could be the wives or daughters of some of us, may Allah protect us all.

Oxalis | 13 years ago | Reply Shame on you 'All the staff and Editors of Expres Tribune and this web version'. If you are not listening to the comments of people then why this comment box is here. This page should already have been removed/blocked due to this cheap and bizaree title.

Sidrah Ali | 13 years ago | Reply Congratulations, now express is beating GEO in the throw rubish n spice up news race. The headline makes one think the women involved in the story were professional dancers. please don’t misuse the power of pen, respect your profession. There should be difference between journalists and neighbourhood gossipers. Allah hidayat de ameen

nasir malik | 13 years ago | Reply Derogatory language must be discouraged and their should be difference between newscaster and a news hawker.

Habiba Younis | 13 years ago | Reply I have never seen a more DISGUSTING title than this in any paper! seriously, are u people making fun of those women or reporting a criminal act? "Munni Badnaam hui" ugh! what a nice ridiculing headline! And here I wasnt thinking ET is one of the sane voices of press! Its really shameful!

Amna Khalid | 13 years ago | Reply I also believe the headline is extremely derogatory and disrespectful to the poor women who had to endure such a torture!

faraz | 13 years ago | Reply these girl are lying .......

Umair Usman | 13 years ago | Reply Well who is the suspect , and for which crime. Girls because they danced or the police!

Tahira Azeem | 13 years ago | Reply I fully agree with Umer Farooq that these news have been reported in inappropriate manner by Express News and Express Tribune. When these news were first aired on Express News, the song "Munni Badnaam Hui" was played in background, the news anchor read the headline in spicy way and the visuals only contained video of these three victim women sitting in park. Whoever the women were, a crime was committed against them and the Express News should have presented the news in such a way that sympathies are given to them. At least the visual should be about those "criminal" policemen or the police station building where this crime took place.

Dr Farooq | 13 years ago | Reply Express media group is primarily responsible for this wicked and sickening crime. They are the one who proudly aired such an indecent and obscene song countless time in their tv programme and transmission which lead to all this. Police is and had always been morally corrupt but such songs aired by your channel only made not only police but all sections of society morally corrupt.. I am sure as this comment is critical of your news channel so it'll be censored..

@Joey Trivianni | 13 years ago | Reply I couldn't agree more with Umer Farooq. Its obvious that the tribune has no apathy towards the victims here and is merely trying to generate revenue by using a spicy Title. I cant really blame the Punjab Police as 99.9% of them are illiterate and are victims of inferiority and social complexes not to mention a disgrace to our country and everything it represents . Just to level their complexities they use acts as above for self satisfaction.However the tribune should have played out as a bigger person and should have shown a little respect towards these women (by using a serious attentive title) , my level of respect for these women has notoriously increased as they had the courage,confidence and self respect to take this matter to court.Though I am not a big fan of the Pakistani judicial system even with the outstanding attention they are getting. As (par say most) judges aren't really that different than the Police themselves. I base this statement on a mere observation of law and order ... if the judges weren't corrupt there wouldn't be cops as the ones involved. Even if a shred of justice is done with these women , ill believe a very rare pakistani circumstance has arisen in which good has triumphed over evil... May God have mercy on these people and this country... Pakistan Zindabad..

Asghar Khan | 13 years ago | Reply Dear Editor, First and foremost, your report lacks everything a good report MUST have. The title says" Dancing girls move court to take action against cops" but you do not mention anywhere that these were dancing girls. And even if they were dancing girls I do not think that they should be treated with such indignity and forced to face such humiliation. Shame on the men who take advantage of their positions on people who cannot fight for themselves. And shame on you for putting this humiliating episode in a Tabloid manner. thank you. AK

DZ | 13 years ago | Reply What the hell is wrong with you guys!! Will you remove that disgusting headline already??

sohail | 13 years ago | Reply dear reporter please also illustrate by which case police has charged them with!! police threatened to nominate them in fake cases and also registered a case against them in the Saddar police station. this story is raising questions for critics that it might be a fire back on police when they were arrested. please give complete image.

Umer Farooq | 13 years ago | Reply I find this headline highly derogatory and inappropriate to the matter. Such a serious matter should not be put in a "spicy" way. What is the point in using terms "Dancing Girls" and " munni badnam Hui" here.....perhaps women sexual harassment has become a norm in our Land of Pure.....now no one give a dam about it......Tribune should know that its not a "Tabloid" or smthing....its serious business.....

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