{"id":5830,"date":"2016-06-13T09:44:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-13T09:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalpress.hinduismnow.org?p=5827&amp;preview_id=5827"},"modified":"2016-06-13T09:44:23","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T09:44:23","slug":"horrifying-hindu-man-brutally-tortured-by-policeman-in-pakistan-for-selling-edibles-before-iftar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/?p=5830","title":{"rendered":"Hindu man brutally tortured by policeman in Pakistan for selling edibles before Iftar | Zee News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Islamabad: In a shocking incident, a Hindu man was brutally tortured by policeman in Pakistan for selling edibles before\u00a0Iftar.<\/p>\n<p>The police constable has been arrested following a social media campaign calling for justice for the old man.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What are the charges against policeman?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the police, Ali Hassan, the policeman, posted in Ghotki district was arrested on the charges of torturing and injuring Gokal Das, an octogenarian, on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Vinod Kumar, Gokal Das&#8217;s grandson, registered an FIR against the policeman for assaulting the elderly man, a senior police official said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pictures went viral <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As the pictures of Das with torture marks went viral on social media, Inspector General Sindh A.D. Khawaja ordered that justice must be served to the Hindu man.<\/p>\n<p>Rights activists including Sudhar Sabha president Amarnath Randhawa demanded an exemplary punishment for the policeman.<\/p>\n<p>(With agency inputs)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/zeenews.india.com\/news\/world\/horrifying-hindu-man-brutally-tortured-by-policeman-in-pakistan-for-selling-edibles-before-iftar_1894501.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hindu man brutally tortured by policeman in Pakistan for selling edibles before Iftar | Zee News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Islamabad: In a shocking incident, a Hindu man was brutally tortured by policeman in Pakistan for selling edibles before\u00a0Iftar. The police constable has been arrested following a social media campaign calling for justice for the old man. What are the charges against policeman? According to the police, Ali Hassan, the policeman, posted in Ghotki district [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[15,17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalpress-new.hinduismnow.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}