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Two suspects held for beating woman ‘thief’

Move comes after a ‘policeman’ thrashing video goes viral

Our Correspondent October 29, 2015

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KARACHI: Two suspects were rounded up on Wednesday after a video which went viral on social and electronic media showing a woman allegedly caught for stealing valuables from a shopping centre in Karachi being beaten by a man under the garb of a police uniform.

The woman was caught by people after she allegedly stole some valuables from Gulf Shopping Centre in Clifton on October 22. Later she was shifted to Women Police Station in Saddar after a case was registered against her at Clifton Police Station.

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Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah directed IGP Sindh to conduct an inquiry about the incident.

The police officials said that the suspect, who was under the garb of a police uniform and thrashing a woman, was not a cop but was just wearing a uniform.

The police later raided the shopping centre and arrested the two suspects allegedly involved in the incident.

Her husband beat her and other women told her it’s probably her fault

A key suspect, namely Akbar, is one of the two detainees under the police custody while further investigation is under way.

Watch the video here:

Published in The Express Tribune, October 29^th, 2015.

COMMENTS (16)

Mrs HighBall | 9 years ago | Reply Wannabe cop must've thought it was Halloween !

Baloch | 9 years ago | Reply Shame on us, Mr Zafar Police is not Court of Law, please correct yourself. No police man has right to beat and on top in front of her kid. then you create target killers and people against police. what you think this kid will be good man after seeing all this, because he is minor and cannot stop this police officer that doesn't mean he will forget everything Shame Shame Shame.. now what ? nothing. Court has to do something which will be leason but will it be............................

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Naeem | 9 years ago | Reply Shame on these Sharia law advocators. Go back and live in the stone age. You and your children deserve nothing better. When are you going to learn to become a civilized society? You need another 100 years to understand what is law and what is unlawful, If this women is guilty then should be punished by the courts in accordance with the law of the land. How would you like your mother and sister and daughter to be told that she would be raped in front of everyone and especially a young child? Shameful creature in the guise of a human being. No understanding of Islam ,uneducated and uncouth human being.

Bhatti | 9 years ago | Reply You need to understand Sharia law yourself first. Beating of people infront of citizens is not allowed on robbery and theft. If I steal something and I get caught, the police must cut my hands or whatever in their own places. Not infront of public. Start being a grownup. @Zafar:

ahmedAlam | 9 years ago | Reply What a disgraceful language used and implied threat of rape. Unbelievable !!!

Anam | 9 years ago | Reply if she was a suspect then why she wasn't treated by women officials? who the h* has given the male police the right to investigate the opposite? Strange law and order. Am shocked!

MAS | 9 years ago | Reply Guilty or NOT that is so not ON !!! this guy police or Not should get the same treatment to learn a lesson. And of course this guy is not the police.. This seems like a case of the women being framed !! or Maybe not still this sort of treatment can not allowed !!

Ali | 9 years ago | Reply Put the entire police force behind bars and burn the jails.

Annonymous | 9 years ago | Reply @Zafar: if a woman can give delivery to a baby then u can too? she should be handed over to the law..not beaten in public

Israr | 9 years ago | Reply @Karachi Mullah: @Zafar: I guess you two were probably present at the scene among so many other idiots. It is not about being guilty or not guilty, not even about gender discrimination. It is about unduly humiliating a PERSON through vigilantism, without any involvement of the law. It could have been your mother, or your father for that matter, who could have been mistaken for committing theft. How about your mother being slapped in the face in front of you, guilty or not guilty?

Karachi Mullah | 9 years ago | Reply Yeah Yeah. When their is women, then she is innocent. Ain't that is Mr CM?

Zafar | 9 years ago | Reply she must be treated in accordance with law of Sharia, if she found guilty of larceny an apt punishment must be meted out to her so that in future no could dare to do so..why should show leniency towards a women even though she was capture red handed. i am against such gender discrimination if a man could be sentence for his wrong-doings , then a women should also be ..no gender discrimination is acceptable..

Lion King | 9 years ago | Reply The bearded shop owners on whose behest the lady was beaten and humiliated and who were the merry spectators of this shameful act should also be arrested on non-bailable act of terrorism.

Saud Usmani | 9 years ago | Reply was not a cop but was just wearing a uniform??????????????

NY | 9 years ago | Reply Beating and abusing a woman in front of her child. How more low can we go?

Jalbani Baloch | 9 years ago | Reply The police should act swifly and bring to book all those people, who were involved in the maltreatment of woman, who was alleged to have stolen some valuables from a Shopping Mall. Women are a sign of respect, and under no circumstances, they should be mistreated on any grounds. If the lady was caught stealing or doing something wrong, the people should have simply handed her to the Police for action under the law. Not only woman, but even such kind of treatment, cannot be delivered to a man, if involved in such case. It is only the Police, which has to take action against the criminals in accordance with the set law of the land.

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