Amraiz Khan Lahore
Few influential in Bahawalpur Sadar police station limits axed a poor person to death in a broad daylight to what police called an old enmity. The police authorities concerned arrested family members of the victim instead of the accused. The other family members of the victims blocked the Bahawalpur-Karachi road to protest against the police’s discriminatory action.
Iqbal one of the family members of the victim while talking to Pakistan Observer said that a few influential in the area on May 2, axed his relative Rabnawaz to death in Sadar police station limits Bahawalpur. Iqbal said that around 10 powerful people armed with axes, knives and sticks attacked the house of Rabnawaz over personal enmity. During attacks of axes, Rabnawaz was injured severely and could not scum to his injuries and breathed his last on the way to the hospital. While attackers also injured five to six other family members of Rabnawaz. After the incident family members of deceased Rabnawaz informed the police but the police did not register FIR against the accused allegedly involved in the death of Rabnawaz.
