ISLAMABAD – February 13 (ONLINE): Prime Minister Imran Khan Sunday took stern notice of another mob-lynching incident in Khanewal district’s Mian Channu area where a middle-aged man was stoned to death by a mob over alleged desecration of the Holy Quran in a remote village of Khanewal district on Saturday.
The incident took place in Jungle Dera village where hundreds of loc¬als gathered after Magh¬rib pra¬yers following annou¬n¬cements that a man had torn some pages of the Holy Quran and later set them on fire.
“We have zero tolerance for anyone taking the law into their own hands and mob lynching will be dealt with full severity of the law” the Prime Minister tweeted Sunday.
“[I] Have asked Punjab IG for report on action taken against perpetrators of the lynching in MIan Channu and against the police who failed in their duty” he also maintained in his tweet.
According to media reports, the suspect was stoned to death with no one ready to listen to him, after he rep¬orte¬dly claimed innocence. The villagers first hanged him with a tree and then hit him with bricks, until he died.
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