Sialkot Lynching
Pakistan: Police round up 33 more suspects in Silakot lynching case
Pakistan police have arrested 33 people, who are the primary suspects, in the lynching of a Sri Lankan national in Sialkot city, media reports said on Friday.
A first information report was registered against 900 workers of Rajco Industries on the application of Uggoki Station House Officer Armaghan Maqt under sections 302, 297, 201, 427, 431, 157, 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code and 7 and 11WW of the Anti-Terrorism Act, reports Dawn News.
The suspects will be produced before the court later in the day.
Investigator Tariq Mahmood told Dawn News the remand of 52 suspects had already been obtained from the court.
As many as 85 suspects have been arrested in connection with the case so far, he added.
The victim has been identified as Priyantha Kumara, who was tortured to death to by the mob over blasphemy allegations before they burnt his body.
Kumara, a Sri Lankan national and general manager of Rajko Industries in Sialkot in, was accused by the vigilante mob of tearing a poster bearing the name of Prophet Mohammad, reports said.
After torturing him, the mob burnt his body publicly on a road in Sialkot.
The incident had drawn widespread condemnation.
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