Islamabad: Pakistani Supreme Court on Friday attracts the authorities for failing to stop attacks at Hindu temples in a remote city in the Punjab province and ordered the arrest of the perpetrators, observing that the incident had tarnished the image of foreign countries abroad.
Judge Chairman Gulzar Ahmed, who recorded the attack on Thursday, led the trial in Islamabad.
SC took a notification of Suo Motu about this case after Patron-in-head of Pakistani Hindus Dr.
Ramesh Kumar met with the main justice on Thursday.
Hundreds of people, carrying sticks and bricks attacked the temple, burned the parts and damaged idols in the Bhong area of Rahimyar Khan Province in protest against the release of a Hindu boy, who was arrested for alleged urinating in the seminary.
A police officer said the boy was arrested last week and was ordered under the blasphemy law but was then released with a guarantee because he became an underage child.
“The situation is uncontrolled after the court guarantees to the boy,” he said.
“What administrations and police do when the temple was attacked,” Chairman of the Judge Ahmed asked IGP Inam Ghani, who was specifically called to appear before the court.
CJ said the attack had been serious damage to Pakistan’s reputation globally, Geo News reported.
Ghani said “the priority of government is to protect 70 Hindu houses around the temple”.
Assistant Commissioner and Assistant SP present at the scene, Ghani added.
CJ is not satisfied and commenting: “If the Commissioner, DCP and district police officers cannot do, then they must be removed.” He observed that it showed that the police did nothing but watch the incident, without realizing that it would damage the image of the country abroad.
“Hindu temples are destroyed, and just thinking they must feel.
Imagine what a Muslim reaction was destroyed by the mosque,” CJ said.
The IGP tried to calm the bench by saying that the case was registered and the terrorist clause was added in FIR.
Pakistan SC: Temple attacks have tarnished the country’s image
