Two more cases lodged against religious leader Khadim Hussain Rizvi, others

ISLAMABAD (INP): Islamabad police on Friday lodged two more cases against Khadim Hussain Rizvi, who is leading Tehreek-i-Labbaik Ya Rasool Allah demonstrators camped out at the entrance to the capital.

Rizvi has already been booked for the death of a child, who passed away after the ambulance taking him to a hospital was blocked by the protesters.

Pir Aijaz Afzal and other leaders and participants of the Islamabad protest sit-in have been also nominated in the two First Information Report (FIRs).

Staffers of a private TV channel nominated the protesting leaders in a case pertaining to the violence against the TV channel crew. According to the FIR, the media team was attacked, tortured, threatened and their vehicles were also smashed. The protesters also snatched their cameras, the complaint stated.

The second case was lodged on the complaint of Magistrate Ghulam Murtaza Chandio for the violation of Secton 144 by the protesters, along with other charges.

According to the plaintiff of the earlier FIR, he was taking his eight-month-old son, who was suffering from diarrhea, to a hospital in Islamabad for medical treatment but their path was blocked by protesters.

He said that there was no way to move forward and the ambulance was stopped by protesters at the Faizabad Interchange. Despite a number of requests, he said, the demonstrators did not allow the ailing child to proceed to the hospital.

“I managed to take him to another hospital near Khanna, where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival,” he added.

The FIR charged the men under section 322 of the Pakistan Penal Code, which deals with the punishment for ‘Qatal bis sabab’, or unintentional murder.