Shady business: Woman, son arrested for skinning donkey

BAHAWALPUR:

A woman and her son were arrested after they were caught skinning a donkey on Wednesday. Two of their accomplices managed to escape.

A police spokesman said Amina Bibi, her son Akhtar, Nazi Bibi and Muhammad Ashraf were spotted skinning the donkey of their neighbour Nazeer Hussain some distance from their house in Basti Adam Khan. He said some neighbours informed police. He said when the police team arrived, Nazia and Ashraf fled while Amina and her son Akhtar were arrested. Police also recovered the slaughtered donkey and equipment used for skinning.

Police took them to Bagh-o-Bahaar check post where some of their neighbours had gathered to protest against them.

Talking to newsmen, Malik Nazeer Hussain, one of the protesters, said some had people entered their houses disguised as beggars and mixed poison in the fodder.

He said when donkeys died, they took them to fields where they skinned the animal and sold its meat. He said several healthy donkeys had died mysteriously last month and their carcasses had been stolen.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 5^th, 2015.