Sanghar court orders case against landlord Ghulam Rasool Shar for camel mutilation incident

A local court has ordered to register FIR against landlord Ghulam Rasool Shar in camel mutilation case near Mund Jamrao in Sanghar district on June 15.

Sommer Bahan, the owner of camel, reached the court and requested to file a case against the local landlord Ghulam Rasool Shar.

Somer Behan took a stand in the petition that Mangali police did not take my statement to save the main accused Ghulam Rasool Shar and registered a case against the government.

The court ordered the Mangali police to register a case against the said landlord, the court sent the 6 accused arrested in the case to jail on judicial remand.

The incident took place on June 15, when a landlord allegedly mutilated the camel’s right leg as “punishment” for foraging into his farmland for fodder. When police contacted the owner of the mutilated camel, Soomar Behan, he refused to identify the culprit and press charges against him, said police officials.

Hence police lodged an FIR on behalf of the state against six unknown persons under Sections 429 (mischief by killing or maiming cattle) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), they said.

The six suspects were identified as Rustam Shar, Abid Shar, Jaffar Jatt, Abdul Shakoor Shar, Gul Baig Lashari and Darya Khan Shar.

Police officials said the FIR was lodged under Sections 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 147 (punishment for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapon) and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object) of the PPC.

The eight-month-old female camel was later transported to the Comprehensive Disaster Management Services animal shelter in Malir, Karachi, where her new caretakers named her Cammie. Efforts were underway to arrange a prosthetic leg for the brutalised animal, said sources.