A Hindu man aged over 80 years was beaten up by a police constable in Pakistan for allegedly eating and selling food before iftaar, triggering a social media campaign that led to the arrest of the cop.
Gokal Das was thrashed by constable Ali Hussain in the remote village of Hayat Pitafi in Ghotki district of Sindh province where he was selling food before iftaar, the evening meal with which Muslims end their daily Ramzan fast at sunset.
Hussain claimed he also saw him eating a banana.
Bachal Qazi, the Station House Officer of the Jawar police station in whose jurisdiction the village falls said that the constable and his brother “threw the old man on the ground and beat him badly before people rescued him.”
Das was later taken to a hospital for treatment as he was bleeding.