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India-Pakistan
Police round up 10 more suspects in Khanewal lynching case
2022-02-16
Yesterday’s arrests are seen here.
[Dawn] Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

police rounded up on Tuesday 10 more primary suspects in the case of lynching of a man over 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...
allegations in a village of Punjab's Khanewal district last week.

According to a statement issued by the Punjab police spokesperson, the recent arrests have taken the number of total detained suspects in the case to 112, among whom 31 are primary suspects.

The statement said the arrests were made in raids on different locations.

Initially, police had arrested 85 suspects, after Prime Minister Imran Khan
...aka The Great Khan, who is the lightweight's lightweight...
had taken notice of the incident, and took six more into custody on Monday.

All the arrested suspects would be presented before an anti-terrorism court in Multan
...Home of the Multan Sultans...
today (Tuesday), the police statement said.

Meanwhile,
...back at the secret hideout, Scarface Al sneeringly put his proposition to little Nell...
"the Punjab IGP (inspector general of police) has directed the Multan RPO (regional police officer) and Khanewal DPO (district police officer) to personally monitor the case's probe," the statement read.

THE INCIDENT
The lynching incident had taken place on Saturday in Khanewal's Jungle Dera village, when a middle-aged man was stoned to death by a mob over alleged desecration of the Holy Koran.

The first information report of the incident, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, was registered at Tulamba cop shoppe on the complaint of police officer Munawwar Hussain under Sections 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon), 149 (unlawful assembly of people), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 302 (intentional murder) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the Pakistain Penal Code and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The FIR stated that when police officials reached the village, a man accused of burning the Holy Koran was found tied up with ropes and being subjected to violence by a large mob.

The FIR said the police tried to placate the crowd but to no avail, adding that the 33 identified suspects and around 200-300 others eventually killed the man after beating him with rods, sticks and bricks.

"The suspects hung his body from a tree which spread immense fear," the FIR said, adding that the body was recovered after much effort and taken for a postmortem examination.

The FIR said the coppers were also subjected to violence by the suspects due to which a sub-inspector suffered injuries and required medical treatment.
Related:
Khanewal: 2022-02-14 85 held for lynching ‘mentally ill’ man in Khanewal as two FIRs registered
Khanewal: 2019-11-29 Data Darbar bombing facilitator sentenced to death by Lahore ATC
Khanewal: 2019-10-13 Two sisters kidnapped, gang-raped by five men in Kabirwala
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