Islamabad: 13 people arrested on Saturday, on the charge of burning alive a wheelchair-bound man. The deceased was suspected of killing a boy over the alleged theft of a goat late on Friday.
The police said that the incident took place in Paladheri area, where protesters demonstrating against killing of a youth turned into mob and went to the disabled suspect’s residence and set it on fire. The mob burned him alive. His mother was also injured in the arson attack.
Mobile phone videos of the rioters pushing the wheelchair-bound man from the roof of the house into fire were also shared on social media. The videos showed a big crowd surrounding a burning house and chanting slogans, reported Dawn.
Charsadda District Police Officer Asif Bahadar said that the slain wheelchair-bound suspect was identified as Suliman alias Malang Jan, who allegedly earlier shot dead Shahsawar, 22, apparently in a dispute over theft of a goat.
Malang Jan’s mother said that on Friday her son had a quarrel with Shahsawar – who was killed later in the night – and afterwards Ajmal, Bakhtiar, Siraj and others surrounded their house and brought down its boundary wall.
She said that she along with her daughter and wheelchair-bound son took refuge on the floor of the house. According to Malang’s mother the rioters first torched her house and later managed to make their way to the floor and pushed her disabled son into fire.
The mob attacked the police personnels who tried to rescue the besieged family, SHO city police station Behrmand Shah said, adding that, they rescued the woman and retrieved the body of her son from the fire.
According to Dawn, the police have booked Anees, Saeedullah, Waseemullah, Sawar, Siraj, Kaleem, Irfan, Intikhab, Talha, Niazullah and others under section 302, 324, 436, 427, 148 and 149 of Pakistan Penal Code and section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, for torching the house and killing the man.
The police registered another FIR against Malang Jan for killing Shahsawar.
Chief Minister Mahmood Khan took notice of the Charsadda incident and directed IGP Moazzam Jan Ansari to present a report about the incident.
Condemning the violence Mr Khan directed the police to ensure fair and transparent investigation of the case. (UNI)