Islamabad: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday took notice of the assault on a female TikToker by a mob at Minar-e-Pakistan and spoke with Inspector General Punjab Police Inam Ghani regarding the incident.
PTI representative Sayed Zulfi Bukhari confirmed, on Twitter, that the premier had spoken to Punjab’s top police official and claimed that police “is catching all culprits involved in manhandling of [the] female TikToker”.
PM @ImranKhanPTI personally spoke to IGPunjab, police is catching all culprits involved in manhandling of female tiktoker in Lahore & those damaging statue of Ranjit Singh at LahoreFort.
— Sayed Z Bukhari (@sayedzbukhari) August 18, 2021
These are gross violations of laws & social norms, govt won’t spare a single person involved.
He added that it was a “gross violation of laws and social norms’ and assured that the government ‘won’t spare a single person involved” in the assault.
Bukhari further said that those involved in damaging the statue of Ranjit Singh at Lahore fort would also be arrested.
Focal person to CM Punjab Azhar Mashwani said non-bailable clauses have been added to the FIR of the incident and Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has ordered to arrest of the culprits as soon as possible.
Mashwani added that police is analysing the video clips and the CCTV footage of the area to identfy those involved in the assault.
