Landlord’s son arrested for ‘chopping off’ boy’s arms

Published July 25, 2014
Tabassum Shahzad pictured in a hospital.
Tabassum Shahzad pictured in a hospital.

GUJRAT: Police claimed to have arrested on Thursday a landlord’s son who allegedly chopped off both arms of a young boy by pushing him on to a running water pumping machine in Chak Bhula village.

According to police, the accused has confessed that he had thrown the boy on to the water pump after tying his hands.

Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took notice of the incident and sought a report from the Gujrat police and the district administration.

According to sources, landlord Ghulam Ghous and Nasir Iqbal, the boy’s father, had a dispute over getting an electricity transformer repaired as farmlands and outhouses of their families were in the same neighbourhood.

On July 21, the landlord’s son Ghulam Mustafa, 24, allegedly pushed 10-year-old Tabassum Shahzad on a water pumping machine. The boy’s arms were severed by its petter engine.

Shahzad was taken to the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Hospital, where he was given treatment and later sent home.

The family of the boy reported the matter to police on July 22. Police asked them to first produce a medico-legal report.

Police registered a case against Ghulam Mustafa under sections 324 and 334 of the Pakistan Penal Code on the basis of the medico-legal report.

Nasir Iqbal told police that his son was punished by the landlord’s son because of his dispute with his father.

District Police Officer Rai Ijaz Ahmad and SP Riaz Ahmad visited the crime scene to investigate the case.

The boy has been readmitted to the hospital and is now under treatment there.

Published in Dawn, July 25th, 2014

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