{"id":59878,"date":"2024-12-21T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-12-21T09:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=59878"},"modified":"2024-12-21T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-12-21T09:36:21","slug":"man-booked-for-harassing-female-polio-worker-in-karachi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/karachi\/man-booked-for-harassing-female-polio-worker-in-karachi\/","title":{"rendered":"Man booked for &#8216;harassing&#8217; female polio worker in Karachi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: A man has been booked in the case related to the alleged harassment of a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/nazimabad-police-arrests-two-individuals-for-refusing-anti-polio-drops\/\">polio worker<\/a> in Karachi&#8217;s Surjani Town area, police said on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The first information report (FIR) was registered on a complaint of a female polio worker at the Surjani Police Station under sections 294 and 509 of the Criminal Procedure Code.<\/p>\n<p>On December 18, a man exposed himself to a female polio worker and harassed her while she was administering polio drops at a flat in the afternoon in Surjani Town.<\/p>\n<p>The first information report was registered at the Surjani Police Station under sections 294 and 509 of the Criminal Procedure Code, which pertain to obscene acts and sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story_ads\">\n<p>Following the complaint, police initiated an investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n<p>The news came days after a polio vaccination team and policemen guarding them came under attack in Karachi\u2019s Korangi. Two police officers and two polio workers were injured when a family resorted to violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Upon receiving the information, a large contingent of police arrived at the scene and arrested the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government has launched a four-day mass anti-polio campaign nationwide that aimed at covering 143 districts, with over 400,000 polio workers aiming to immunise more than 45 million children over the age of five.<\/p>\n<div class=\"story_ads\">\n<p>Pakistan has seen a surge in polio cases this year, recording 64 this year compared with six in 2023, and the latest case was also recorded in Sindh, of which Karachi is the capital.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KARACHI: A man has been booked in the case related to the alleged harassment of a polio worker in Karachi&#8217;s Surjani Town area, police said on Saturday. The first information report (FIR) was registered on a complaint of a female polio worker at the Surjani Police Station under sections 294 and 509 of the Criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":47611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14811],"tags":[25020,25021],"class_list":["post-59878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-karachi","tag-female-polio-worker","tag-polio-worker-karachi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59878","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59878"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59878\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59879,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59878\/revisions\/59879"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}