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| Four held for setting ablaze watchman cabin of Ahmadi worship place |
| 2019-06-24 |
| [DAWN] TAXILA: Police have arrested four people for torching a watchman’s cabin located outside a worship place of Ahmadis in Wah Cantt, it emerged on Saturday. According to police, those arrested were teenagers who were returning home after playing in a cricket ground last week when they spotted a watchman’s cabin outside the worship place of the Ahmadi community, near sector 14 in the jurisdiction of Wah Cantonment cop shoppe. The youths set fire to the metal-wooden cabin and beat feet from the scene. Police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else under Section 436 of the Pakistain Penal Code (offence of committing mischief by fire or any explosive substance, intending to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause, the destruction of any building which is ordinarily used as a place of worship or as a human dwelling) on the complaint of the caretaker of the worship place, Riaz Ahmed Qureshi. The accused Sabihuddin, Hafiz Abdul Rehman, Mohammad Sheharyar and Atta Mohammad, their ages ranging between 14 and 18 years, were identified through CCTV footage after which police arrested them. |
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