Police official suspended for harassing Hindus for “violating” Ramzan Ordinance in Pakistan’s Sindh
Authorities in Pakistan`s southern province of Sindh on Saturday suspended a police officer for harassing, manhandling, and arresting Hindus for allegedly “violating” a regulation forbidding ingesting or consuming in public throughout the holy month of Ramzan, consistent with a media report.
The movement become taken whilst a video went viral displaying Station House Officer (SHO) Kabil Bhayo of the Khanpur police station withinside the Ghotki district going round with a stick in hand and hitting a few shoppers, such as Hindu guys who had been reportedly making ready biryani for shipping to customers, mentioned The Express Tribune newspaper.
“I swear that I belong to the Hindu community, and he’s getting rid of food. We do now no longer run the eating carrier interior throughout Ramzan,” a person who become arrested via way of means of the police said.
However, the SHO publicly compelled the Hindu eating place proprietor to take an oath on his sacred book. The police officer arrested extra than a dozen human beings after bodily assaulting them.
After the video went viral, the Sindh Human Rights Commission (SHRC) took be aware and wrote to the deputy inspector general (DIG) Sukkur and senior superintendent of police (SSP) Ghotki to do so in opposition to the police officer.
“The act is a contravention of essential rights of residents no matter their faith and ideals and is going in opposition to Article 20 of the Constitution of Pakistan, which ensures the liberty to profess and manipulate non secular institutions,” a letter issued via way of means of the SHRC stated.
It brought that the SHO`s behaviour become in opposition to the landmark judgment via way of means of former leader justice Tassaduq Hussain Jillani on minority rights, issued on June 19, 2014. SHRC Chairperson Iqbal Detho requested the senior police officers to probe into the problem and take movement in opposition to the SHO.
The Ramzan Ordinance states that handiest folks who are obligated to speedy below the tenets of Islam are barred from ingesting, consuming, and smoking in public locations throughout fasting hours withinside the month of Ramzan, consistent with The Express Tribune.
Sindh province is domestic to the most important Hindu populace in Pakistan. During Ramzan, the 9th month of the Islamic calendar, Muslims internationally speedy from sunrise to nightfall and shun worldly pleasures.
