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Over 150 ‘assailants’ booked in Christian boy’s death case in Lahore

2022-02-16

[Dawn] The Factory Area police lodged a case against 150-200 ’attackers’ in the wake of death of a Christian boy here on Monday. The police acted after residents of Walton Road allegedly tortured Pervez Masih following a minor dispute of standing in the street.

Police said Pervez suffered critical head injuries and died in hospital.

Police have mounted security in the area to defuse tension when members of the Christian community took to the street against the attack.

Police have registered a murder case against 150-200 ’attackers’ after consulting a team of lawyers of the Christian community. The complainant said some of the attackers were also holding weapons and fired warning shots.

Cantt division operation SP Esa Sukhera made it clear that it was a scuffle incident between the two sides and had nothing to do with religion.

“Harumph! Nothing to do with anti-Christian hate by the mob. Ha-Rumph!! Just 200 boys being boys, y’know.”

He said on Sunday night a scuffle broke out between some members of the Christian community and locals.

The Christians not being local, donchaknow.

Consequently, Sobal Masih got injured and the Factory Area started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the attackers, he said adding the suspects nurtured a grudge against them for reporting the matter to the police and again attacked some relatives of the Christians on Monday.

During the attack, the SP said Pervez Masih suffered critical head injuries and died later in a local hospital which prompted his relatives to lodge a protest.

"We responded timely, engaged the elders of the Christian community and defused the tension," Esa Sukhera said adding that the police raided and arrested one of the prime suspects nominated in the FIR. He said teams had been sent to the area for the arrest of other attackers.

Police rescue blasphemy suspect from lynch mob in Muzaffargarh

[Dawn] Police with the help of area notables foiled on Monday a lynching attempt and rescued a man from a mob over alleged blasphemy

...the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence to a deity, or sacred objects, or toward something considered sacred or inviolable. Some religions consider it to be a crime. In Pakistain you can commit blasphemy by looking cross-eyed at a Koran...
and shifted him to some undisclosed location.

According to complainant, after Isha prayers he saw a man was burning pages of the the Holy Koran in front of a mosque in Alipur tehsil near Jagmal area. He said he locked the suspect in a room and called police 15.

Soon a mob gathered there but a heavy contingent of police reached the spot, broke the lock and took the suspect into custody.

District Police Officer Mohammad Tariq Wilayat took notice of the incident and ordered shifting of the suspect to some safe place.

Alipur Saddar police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else against the suspect under section 295B of PPC and sealed the first information report.

Dawn has learnt that a group of 25 to 30 people came to the cop shoppe and found no one there.

SHO Ghulam Mujtaba said the suspect seemed to be mentally deranged; however, "we are waiting for a medical report."

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