A nine-month-old boy has appeared in court in Pakistan on charges of
planning a murder, threatening police and interfering in state affairs,
it appears.
Baby Muhammad Mosa Khan is one of more than 30 people facing charges
after a police raid to catch suspected gas thieves in the city of
Lahore, The News website reports. Police say the suspects tried to
murder security officers by pelting them with stones. But the Times of
India newspaper quotes the infant’s father as saying the group was
protesting an electricity shortage.
The infant appeared in the courtroom sitting on his father’s lap –
who is also accused – and clasping a feeder. He was given bail and the
case has been adjourned until 12 April, reports from Lahore say.
The murder charges against a baby have alarmed Punjab’s Chief
Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. He has asked for clarification from
the province’s inspector-general of police and demanded “stern action”
against the officials who registered the case, reports the BBC.
The assistant superintendant who filed the charges has subsequently been suspended, The Nation website says.
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