A judicial magistrate in Sanghar district has denied a police request for extended physical custody of six suspects allegedly involved in the mutilation of a camel’s leg near Mund Jamrao.
The suspects, after completing a four-day remand, were produced before the court. Judicial magistrate Habibullah Siyal rejected the police’s plea for further remand and instead sent the suspects to jail on judicial remand.
According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Sanghar, two of the suspects, Abdul Shakoor Shar and Abid Shar, confessed to their crime during the investigation.
The Incident
The incident occurred in Mund Jamrao village, Sanghar district, where a landlord allegedly chopped off a camel’s leg as punishment for scavenging in his field for fodder. Soomer Khan, the camel’s owner, recounted the incident at the Sanghar press club, expressing confusion and distress over the mutilation, as he had no known enmity with anyone.
Response
The SSP of Sanghar took immediate notice after a video of the mutilated camel went viral on social media. An FIR was filed on behalf of the state against unknown persons under sections 429 and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah also took notice of the incident, with plans to provide the wounded camel with an artificial leg. The camel has since been transferred to Karachi for medical treatment.