- Courtroom asks police to not arrest wrongdoer till Oct 18.
- Decide seeks file of case from police on identical date.
- “We now have reconciled,” daughter-in-law says in video.
SHEIKHUPURA: An aged man has bodily assaulted his daughter-in-law for not cooking and serving the meal on time, as seen in a video surfacing throughout the web.
As quickly because the incident garnered traction on social media with netizens condemning the act, the native police took motion, registering a primary data report (FIR) — by itself — with the intention of arresting the wrongdoer.
Geo Information, nonetheless, discovered from courtroom sources that the person — named Muhammad Latif Rahmani — appeared within the periods courtroom to hunt pre-arrest bail.
Subsequently, he was granted an interim bail by the Extra Periods Decide Malik Muhammad Asif, barring the police from arresting him until October 18.
The courtroom, in the meantime, has additionally sought the file of the case on the identical date.
The incident, which happened in Sheikhupura’s Jandiala Sher Khan city, got here to the fore after its video started doing the rounds on social media.
Within the now-viral video, a person named Rahmani is seen inhumanely beating his daughter-in-law with a rolling pin, whereas her 4 kids tried to guard her pleading with the grandfather to not hit their mom.
Taking motion towards the brutality after tracing data concerning the perpetrators, the native police had earlier registered a case beneath sections 506, 292 and 324 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) towards the wrongdoer and expedited its efforts to apprehend him.
In accordance with the police, the sufferer is a mom of 4 kids — three daughters and a son. Her husband presently works and resides in South Africa for work.
In one other video floating on social media, the sufferer mentioned her father-in-law beat her after she “misbehaved” with him.
“We had a home subject, which is now resolved, as we now have reconciled,” she mentioned, including that she is not going to take any authorized motion towards Rahmani.
Upon contacting the Assistant of Sub-Inspector (ASI) and Investigating Officer Muhammad Mohsin, Geo Information learnt that Rahmani is a commodity dealer in Jhabran Mandi, the place the police had carried out a raid for his arrest.
He, based on the police, was enraged after his daughter-in-law scolded her son — Rahmani’s solely male grandchild, whom he’s extraordinarily keen on. Due to this fact, he started to bodily torture her utilizing a rolling pin. He additionally slapped and kicked her.
The sufferer’s kids, nonetheless, stored begging their grandfather to cease beating their mom, however to no avail.
The video of the torture, the police mentioned, was made by Rahmani’s different son Abid, and his spouse from the higher story of their home. He then despatched the video to his family, after which it went viral on the web.
The investigation officer mentioned the police staff was conducting raids to arrest the wrongdoer, whereas Abid — who runs a quack clinic close to his home in connivance with some well being division officers — was being interrogated and beneath custody.