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Mob kills elderly man for being ‘homosexual’

Staff Report

KARACHI: An elderly man was beaten to death by an angry mob for being involved in a homosexual act within the jurisdiction of Shah Latif police station on Saturday.

As per details, the incident took place at Pir Sarhandi Goth during the wee hours of Saturday. Police officials said that 60-year-old Mohammad Hashim Jhokio, son of Mehran, was a homosexual and added that unidentified people killed him at his residence.

The deceased was a watchman by profession and had been married for the last 25-30 years without any children.

Police officials further said that the deceased was living separately in the village and was abhorred by his fellow villagers for being a homosexual.

They said a group of angry people raided his house where he was indulged in an obscene activity with a man and killed him on the spot by hitting him with clubs and rods.

Police officials said that apparently it was a case of ‘vigilante justice’ as people were enraged over the sexual behaviour of the deceased Jhokio. However, there were no details available about the other person who was present with the deceased when he was beaten to death.

On the other hand, the Shah Latif police were reluctant about giving clear details of the event leading to the killing of the man and they said that some unidentified persons killed the man while he was sleeping.

“We have also learnt that the man was a homosexual and the locals hated him for his sexual activities, but we have no evidence that he was killed by a mob,” police officials said. The police have registered an FIR no 507/09 against unidentified persons and were investigating the motive behind the killing.

In another incident, a security guard of a private company committed suicide on Saturday at the house where he was deputed in the limits of Bahadurabad police station.

Police said the victim, Syed Maqsood Ali Shah, 28, son of Syed Mustafa Shah was deployed at House No 265 at Bahadurabad.

He shot himself in the chest and died on the spot. The victim was the resident of Garden East. The cause of the suicide could not be ascertained.

Police said the deceased was a married man and could have committed suicide over financial problems.

His body was shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for autopsy.

In another incident, a baby girl was killed and her father was seriously injured when the motorcycle on which they were riding was hit by a speeding car on II Chundrigar Road within the limits Mithadar police station.

Police and eyewitnesses said the victim Laraib was going with her father on a motorcycle when a car hit them. Both of them fell on the road, causing fatal injuries to the child killing her on the spot while her father, Aamir, sustained injuries, but survived.

The Mithadar police said the identity of the car driver could not be ascertained who himself shifted the injured girl and his father to JPMC and then disappeared.

Police have registered a case against an unknown person and started looking for him.

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