{"id":13967,"date":"2023-02-11T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=13967"},"modified":"2023-02-11T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T11:55:22","slug":"nankana-sahib-mob-lynching-two-senior-cops-suspended-over-negligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nankana-sahib-mob-lynching-two-senior-cops-suspended-over-negligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Nankana Sahib mob lynching: Two senior cops suspended over negligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nankana Sahib mob lynching: Two senior cops suspended over negligence. Two senior police officers were suspended over negligence after Punjab Inspector-General Dr Usman Anwar took notice of a mob lynching of a man accused of committing blasphemy in Nankana Sahib, a police statement confirmed Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The suspension of Nankana Sahib Circle Deputy Superintendent of Police Nawaz Waraq and Warburton Station House Officer Feroz Bhatti came after videos circulating on social media purportedly showed a violent mob outside a police station in Nankana Sahib.<\/p>\n<p>The officers have been ordered to reach the spot and submit an inquiry report.<\/p>\n<p>Strict departmental and legal action will be taken against those responsible for the incident and the perpetrators of negligence, a statement posted by the Punjab police on Twitter read.<\/p>\n<p>In one video, an angry mob can be seen climbing the gates of what appears to be the Warburton police station and then storming inside the building.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/akhtar-hayat-replaces-moazzam-ansari-as-kp-police-chief.html\">Akhtar Hayat replaces Moazzam Ansari as KP police chief<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Policemen on site, including the SHO, reportedly flee the police station to save their lives, while the accused man was locked up inside.<\/p>\n<p>It is being reported that the man had returned after spending two years in jail. Residents of the area alleged that the man used to practice witchcraft by pasting his ex-wife&#8217;s picture on holy papers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>PM Shehbaz orders investigation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif ordered an investigation into the Warburton police station incident and asked why the police did not stop the violent mob.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The rule of law should be ensured, no one should be allowed to influence the law,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the first priority of the institutions responsible for peace and order is peace and that it should always come first.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Punjab caretaker CM seeks report<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mohsin Naqvi, the caretaker chief minister of Punjab, asked for a report from the IG on the incident, directing an investigating from every aspect.<\/p>\n<p>He instructed that legal action be taken against those who take the law into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nankana Sahib mob lynching: Two senior cops suspended over negligence. Two senior police officers were suspended over negligence after Punjab Inspector-General Dr Usman Anwar took notice of a mob lynching of a man accused of committing blasphemy in Nankana Sahib, a police statement confirmed Saturday. The suspension of Nankana Sahib Circle Deputy Superintendent of Police [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[7219,6926,367],"class_list":["post-13967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-nankana-sahib","tag-sho","tag-shehbaz-sharif"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}