DERA GHAZI KHAN.
A four-year-old boy was booked on Friday by police in a case of alleged robbery.
The accused was presented before an additional sessions judge, who admonished the Station House Officer (SHO) at Drahma Police Station, who had registered the FIR against the infant; criticising the police for failing to register FIRs against real culprits.
Last year in Lahore, a policeman was suspended for registering a case of attempted murder against a nine-month old boy and forcing the crying infant to appear in court.
Baby Mohammad Musa, along with his family, was booked last year in February for throwing rocks at gas company officials carrying out an anti-theft inspection in the Ahata Thanedaran neighbourhood of Lahore, the family’s lawyer Chaudhry Irfan Sadiq had previously told AFP.
Inspector Kashif Muhammad, who attended the alleged crime scene and has since been suspended, had written in his report that it was a case of attempted murder.
The case highlighted how Pakistan’s notoriously corrupt police force often trump up false charges either to extract bribes or because they have been paid off.