Women suspected of stealing beaten up violently at Lahore market
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Two women accused of stealing clothes from a shop in Lahore were violently thrashed by the shop owners, it emerged on Thursday.
Leaked footage of the incident, which occurred in a bazaar near Jallo Mor on G.T. Road on Wednesday, was obtained by DawnNewsTV.
The disturbing footage shows a number of men taking turns to beat up the two women using a thick cane. They also repeatedly slap, kick and hit the women with shoes.
The violence continues despite desperate cries of pain from the pair. In one part of the leaked footage, the women are seen being beaten up, sitting on the floor inside a shuttered shop.
The victims were accused of attempting to steal a bundle of clothes from a shop in the market.
The man who inflicted the violence on the women is reportedly associated with the Pakistan Kabaddi Federation.
Instead of approaching the police over the alleged theft, the shop owners resorted to thrashing the women and subsequently let them go.
After the footage of the violence was leaked, police made a move to act against the suspects. However, the shop owners are currently absconding and their houses and shop were to be locked, sub-inspector Mukhtar told DawnNewsTV.
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Sep 06, 2018 02:57pm
This incident should be investigated, as no body has the right to take law in their own hands. If the shop keeper suspected a wrongdoing in his shop then he should have called police to question the two women - this is the proper and civilised way.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:07pm
Those who assaulted woman should be arrested and put in jail for their crime. They could have simply handed over the woman to the Police, if she was found guilty of stealing. Both our religious and societal norms teach us respect and tolerance for women, since they are vulnerable and exists in the shape mothers, daughters and sisters. The man, who beat up the women, does not seem to have had respect for his womenfolk.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:07pm
The men associated with this cruelty must get exemplary punishment and the women subjected to this atrocity be compensated by the perpetrators of this crime. We shall keely follow up on that. Authorities need to emphasise and ensure that violence in any form against citizens either by police or others is totally unacceptable. Punishment should be severe and quick as a message to all who engage in such cruelty.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:16pm
Its shameless, the way owner reacted against these women for stealing cloths of nominal values whereas big thieves are enjoying the luxurious life style. We need to act to stop self justice and this indiscrimination.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:19pm
Yet PLM-N have stolen billions and what do people say "it dont matter vote still for sher" warped mentality.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:20pm
Height of immorality. Our nation is not only losing our cultural norms but also our moral and religious norms. The people beating poor women should get exemplary punishment.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:21pm
This is very sad to beat up the accused like that. The victims don't approach the police over such incident as previous government left the police force in a sorry state.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:33pm
The first rule of law is that law cannot be taken into ones own hand. The accuser cannot be the judge & jury.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:35pm
A civilized country will have civilized people. I hope the new government will work seriously, talk less and do more for the people. Quality education is most important in Pakistan at this point of time.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:35pm
Thieves should face the justice and cases should be registered against these Tarzens
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Sep 06, 2018 03:46pm
How can poor women afford better clothing in times of inflation?
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Sep 06, 2018 03:46pm
Call police and then a new story will start hence swift remedy, a win win situation for both.
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Sep 06, 2018 03:48pm
Unacceptable behaviour. If these women were caught stealing it is not an excuse to indulge in violence. It could be they mistakenly picked up the clothes. We dont know. Just because the shopkeepers were men does not give them the right to inflict pain on those that are weaker than them. We do not know the circumstances of these women, or how desperate they were. The shopkeepers should have behaved in a civilised
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Sep 06, 2018 04:08pm
Really sad this shop keeper is not paying tax he stealing electric and when few things are being taken how he treated these womens when he will get caught what he will do save him?
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Sep 06, 2018 04:11pm
Shameless shop owners. They should be put behind bars and the 2 ladies must be accounted for their act.
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Sep 06, 2018 04:19pm
Those who beatup women need to be beaten up in the same Bazar with similar 'dundas' and kicks. You will see this won't happen again. But Punjab Police factor would not let this happen. Instead they will strike a 'deal'.
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Sep 06, 2018 04:21pm
Act like this will degrade Pakistan image, instead of dealing in civilized way they took matter in their own hand. Ashamed as, how they raised their fists & legs on women who are already powerless. Are they proving to be men?
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Sep 06, 2018 04:32pm
In this age of mistrust people settle their scores and then put a false blame. If really the women were culprits they needed to be handed over to the law enforcement agencies. Further no man has a right to raise his hand on a women. Thanks to the age of social media such issues are highlighted.
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Sep 06, 2018 04:37pm
Looters, who have left the state in the shape of a skeleton, must be smiling right now. I'm not siding with the women stealers though.
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Sep 06, 2018 04:38pm
Very very bad and sad to see such things. Please punish by awarding strict jail and fine to whoever takes law in his/her hands. Set example to people immidiatrly.
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Sep 06, 2018 04:52pm
No one should take law into thier hand. Call police. This public is amazing, politician loots bilions and they shower flowers on them but beat up women for stealing a cloth.
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Sep 06, 2018 04:54pm
Those who take the law into their own hands need to be reprimanded for not pursuing the proper channels, ie reporting it to the law enforcement authorities.
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Sep 06, 2018 04:59pm
Chief Justice sir please take the notice &make laws to turn Pakistani society in to civilised one.
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Sep 06, 2018 05:05pm
If a criminal case of assault had been registered against the Karach PTI law maker and he had been given jail time it would have sent a message to rest of the nation. This will continue to happen if the law is despensed sporadically and after suo moto notices.
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Sep 06, 2018 05:07pm
Who recorded the incident?
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Sep 06, 2018 05:43pm
It shows injustice within our society. 1) We need to understand the cirumstances and injustice within the society which led the women to steal , 2) further injustice caused by the shop owners , 3) lack of trust in the justice system which creates mindsets like these individuals that took law in their own hands.
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Sep 06, 2018 05:44pm
Although it should not happen but these type thieves ladies have even stolen jewellary and other valuables. This act could create detterence
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Sep 06, 2018 05:45pm
Authorities should break the locks of their shop and distribute the things among needy...
and if they these absconders keep on hiding.. then do the same with their house
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Sep 06, 2018 06:42pm
Getting to sick of Purana Pakistan; waiting anxiously for Naya Pakistan where there is justice for all and rule of law
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Sep 06, 2018 06:47pm
Its a fault of law that does not protect shop keepers as well as accused customers. In this case shop keepers are doing wrong if the customers trying to steel is also wrong. Government failed to make laws easily acceptable to its citizens and citizens take law in heir had just as the case here.
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Sep 06, 2018 06:49pm
@Ismail there is no co-relation.This is a lesson to all those thieves out there. People work hard to run their business. How could one hold the women till police arrives.
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Sep 06, 2018 06:52pm
I believe this is grass-root method of stopping crime. It takes a while for the police to reach at the crime site. This is called citizen involvement and action.
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Sep 06, 2018 06:53pm
This is a serious matter and the perhaps CM needs to step in. If women had stolen (past tense) shop keeper can call police they had phones and information.
Beating people up like this is unacceptable. Remember the horrific incident in Sialkot several years ago where two young men lost their lives for alleged stealing. Horrific crime and nothing came out of that.
These men should be tried for assault—I hope some lawyers can step in and do a great service to justice.
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Sep 06, 2018 06:56pm
The shopkeepers should have called the police not beat the women. They must be punished for their intolerable actions.
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Sep 06, 2018 07:01pm
These things happen when society as a whole gets frustrated. No one believes in our justice system that is why people take law in their own hands. I am really sad to say Pakistani society is disintegrating ...
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Sep 06, 2018 07:02pm
Women and young girls are defenseless and are easy victims of violence. In Jamshedpur (India), many years ago, a minor poor Adivasi girl accused of stealing a few pieces of coal was mercilessly beaten by the coal depot owners, in front of many shopkeepers. Many bystanders simply watched without interfering.
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Sep 06, 2018 07:06pm
seriously?
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Sep 06, 2018 07:18pm
Very shameful
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Sep 06, 2018 07:18pm
Very shameful... the culprits must be brought to law.
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Sep 06, 2018 07:31pm
No matter what the crime is-individuals should not and can not take the law in their hands.....full stop.
Another matter is violence against women-irrespective of what the issue is-this can not be condoned.
Shameful act- the vigilantes should be taken to task in accordance of the law.
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Sep 06, 2018 07:35pm
How shameful this big guy with stick is beating the woman.. Shame on this man.
Yes she stole. Just give her to police. Do not act as an animal.
Learn to be humane. Police should charge this man for excessive force.
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Sep 06, 2018 07:53pm
We severely punish poor people of minor crimes and cheer the influential thieves who steal billions.
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Sep 06, 2018 07:55pm
The country has become such that everyone takes their anger out of those that are weaker compared to them. The rich take out anger of the middle class and poor, the middle class on poor and the poor on animals...
We have to hold anyone who does anything wrong accountable. This cycle of violence and oppression will not stop without the rule of law and consequences for those who do wrong.
Currently, we are in jungle mode.
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Sep 06, 2018 08:01pm
The owners must be apprehended and take to task by the law enforcers for the crime they have committed by taking the law into their nefarious hands..
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Sep 06, 2018 08:04pm
In a country where there is no law and no easy access to law, this is what happens. People take the law into their own hands.
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Sep 06, 2018 08:09pm
These incidents happened all the time in the past; but weren't reported because of lack of social media.
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Sep 06, 2018 08:53pm
Due to absence of implementation of laws and law and order, people have the audacity to take law into their own hands. Until severe punishments are carried out, no one will ever respect the law. Just grow the spine and punish a few and you will see how quickly the attitudes will change otherwise round and round we go.
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Sep 06, 2018 08:58pm
Is not it the mother of those people? Is not this a wavelength? I wish that now the Chief Justice Saqib Nisar took action and all those involved in this incident were punished with a severe punishment.
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Sep 06, 2018 09:15pm
Heart breaking, chief Justice please take a suo moto and give examplery punishment to all involved.
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Sep 06, 2018 09:32pm
Mistreatment has become a norm in our society. So many fools are so righteous in their own minds they are unable to think rationally. Utter despair!
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Sep 06, 2018 09:45pm
@Pakistan deserves better better; These women should have been handed over to the police but the new PTI government in Punjab is unable to do anything right with a CM like Buzdar. There was some law and order with the previous regime.
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Sep 06, 2018 10:13pm
These men must be punished on a serious level.
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Sep 06, 2018 10:19pm
It is nothing new ,it is in our culture and way of life,if these women were handed to our police, please guess what they done with them.Please change the system.
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Sep 06, 2018 10:29pm
If law is approachable, quick and fair, no body would attempt to take it in his hands.
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Sep 06, 2018 10:40pm
Shamelessness at its highest. What a cruel way of administering justice.
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Sep 06, 2018 10:53pm
I would ask the sisters to boycott this store.
That no one should be allowed to take law in
to their own hands.
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Sep 06, 2018 11:19pm
shame to hear that our incapable police is unable to catch shopkeeper. Mr. IG Pnjab Police when u get free from trnasferring Gonal ask SHO to arrest shopkeeper or suspend him. Do police has only to take notice when the things surface on media? oh yes, i forgot that there is no system
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Sep 06, 2018 11:39pm
I pledge Rs 25000 each for the poor women. Need the info on how to reach them.
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Sep 06, 2018 11:59pm
Shopkeepers acted as wild animals. They must be first made to pay a heavy compensation to the victims and then should do time in jail for at least 5 years
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Sep 07, 2018 02:30am
Action must be taken against these culprits. No one has the right to take law in their own hands.
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Sep 07, 2018 03:55am
which suspects did police made a move against? beaters or victims ? those suspected of theft or suspected of beating?
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Sep 07, 2018 05:27am
Two crimes here.
1. Men hitting women.
2. Men hitting.
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Sep 07, 2018 05:29am
male dominated society
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Sep 07, 2018 05:56am
@Garib Awam ki_Awaz people have lost trust in police department. They let go of the criminals. Even murderers are set free after taking hefty money.
So, people have come forward to help themselves and let the criminals give a little taste of their wrongdoings.
Justice must be served at the earliest. So did here in the local market.
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Sep 07, 2018 06:08am
@Garib Awam ki_Awaz Agreed. Totally disgusting and deplorable act, having no moral or legal justification whatsoever. This event shows where our nation is heading to. Total intolerance be it religious or otherwise has taken roots in the pschye of nation irrespective of their status or literacy standings. This tendency of adopting role police, prosecution and judge, is everywhere and it glimpses of its ugly happenings Is everywhere. One feels ashamed of being part of this civil society where such high handedness in broad daylight is tolerated without intervention by those witnessing it. We must raise our voice to such abhorring behavior and deter those who commit such acts considering themselves to be above law. One can hope that police will apprehend those committing this act and prosecute them so that such unpleasant and very shameful events are not repeated in future.
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Sep 07, 2018 06:36am
How shameful.
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Sep 07, 2018 06:59am
Book the shop keeper for assult and battery, and hefty fine, in addition to a lengthy prison term. If no such laws are on the books then have the national assembly put such a law on the books.
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Sep 07, 2018 07:20am
What strong men they are. Do they deal in similar fashion with their mothers and daughters. No one steals by choice.
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Sep 07, 2018 07:41am
which century is this ? The faces are clear so they should be brought on tv to explain what is the thought process and then punish them to ensure that others like and there are many do not commit to this ever again
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Sep 07, 2018 07:52am
The wrestler shown in the picture should be put behind bars. A picture is certainly worth a thousand words: an armed man vs unarmed women; and a rich fat man vs. two poor women. This is the height of injustice.
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Sep 07, 2018 08:47am
Dear Dawn Members,
As'salam-O-Alaikum!
I like Dawn news I read it daily, it's a very knowledgement news.
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Sep 07, 2018 08:50am
@Nadia Immediately take action against it.
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Sep 07, 2018 01:33pm
Poverty leads toward imbalance in society. Culprit should be punished.
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Sep 07, 2018 06:05pm
With so many cases pending at the courts. This case will be lost in time. I felt that the courts should not have allowed bail as this would have forced the accused to ensure that proper hearings are conducted which could have provided courts with an opportunity to set a precedent in such cases. Now I fear that people will be emboldened that they can get away with such crimes as even if they are caught they can get bail.
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Sep 07, 2018 06:09pm
If the law maker Dr. Shah can’t take the law in his hands; public don’t have the right to do so. Specially on women. What happen to morality and respect to women. Coward.
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Sep 07, 2018 06:42pm
Where is the footage?
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Sep 07, 2018 09:12pm
Ever so ready to seek others to justice..
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Sep 07, 2018 11:20pm
They beat up helpless women for 'stealing' something which must be worth a pittance, but when confronted by powerful robbers, they turn to jelly. They must be given exemplary punishment.
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Sep 08, 2018 02:24am
@Basir Ahmad ;
Not punished but subjected to the due process of the law, both the purported thieves and the purported assaulters should be tried.
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