Over 200 booked for anti-Hindu riots in Pakistan

Karachi: The police have registered three cases against more than 200 people in connection with the anti-Hindu riots in Pakistan Sindh province’s Ghotki town.
Officials told The Express Tribune that the cases had been filed in which a total of 218 people were nominated.
Hundreds of angry protesters took to the streets in Ghotki on Sunday after Notan Lal, a member of the Hindu community and principal of the Sindh Public School, was accused of passing “blasphemous remarks” by a student.
Additional Inspector-General for Sukkur Jamil Ahmed said an FIR was filed against the principal on the complaint of Abdul Aziz Rajput, the student’s father who claimed that the teacher had committed blasphemy by making derogatory remarks against Prophet Muhammad.
Lal was booked and arrested following the protests, road blockages and riots in Ghotki city and its adjacent small towns.
The mob also vandalized the Sacho Satram Das temple and five shops owned by members of the Hindu community in Ghotki’s Jilani Market, besides a private school were set alight.