JHELUM: A person was arrested on Sunday after he reportedly attacked cleric Engineer Muhammad Ali Mirza, the police mentioned.
Per a primary info report (FIR), a replica of which is offered with Daybreakthe incident came about in Jhelum at Mirza’s Qur’an-o-Sunnat Analysis Academy on the finish of a lecture.
In response to the complainant Muhammad Kashif Qureshi, a core member of the academy, attendees have been returning house after listening to the lecture, however a few of them stayed again to take selfies with Engineer Mirza.
“Simply then, a person attacked Engineer Mirza by grabbing his collar, throwing punches at him, and eradicating his turban,” the FIR quoted Qureshi as saying.
“He violently threw his honorable turban onto the bottom, strangled him with each arms to suffocate him, and loudly chanted slogans,” he added.
Qureshi was quoted as saying that folks current on the website of the incident intervened instantly to guard the scholar.
“We then handed him over to the police on responsibility to make sure that authorized motion is taken towards the felony,” he mentioned in his criticism.
District Police Officer (DPO) Jhelum Tariq Aziz Sindhu, whereas speaking to Daybreak, mentioned that the police have arrested the alleged attacker and the FIR was filed towards him below part 324 (tried homicide) of the Pakistan Penal Code.
“Additional investigations concerning the background of the attacker are underway,” DPO Sindhu added.
The DPO mentioned {that a} four-tier safety of police had been deployed at Mirza’s academy, including that the police had repeatedly warned him to keep away from taking selfies with the strangers getting into as viewers at his periods.
The officer added that the scholar had beforehand been attacked too and was taken into the police’s protecting custody final 12 months below the Upkeep of Public Order (MPO) by Jhelum’s deputy commissioner after an activist of the banned Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) accused him of blasphemy and registered a case towards him. He was later launched on bail.
Section 3 of the MPO ordinance provides authorities the facility to arrest and detain suspected individuals to stop “any particular person from appearing in any method prejudicial to public security” or to keep up public order.
Mirza, a resident of Machine Mohallah of Jhelum metropolis, steadily uploads his lectures and speeches on his social media accounts and has amassed 3.1 million followers on his YouTube. channel.
In 2024, he was amongst 17 clerics whose Speeches have been banned by then-Jhelum DC throughout Muharram to stop any potential sectarian violence.
The favored cleric survived an assassination try at a spiritual academy in March 2021. The suspect was taken into custody, and a case of tried homicide was registered towards him.
The cleric had additionally been booked and arrested by the Jhelum police in Could 2020 for derogatory remarks towards some spiritual figures. Nonetheless, he was later Launched on bail.
