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Daily
Times - Site Edition
Friday, October 08, 2004
Mob
stops closure of porn CD shops on
By
Aayan Ali
Some city government employees ended up in hospital with minor injuries and
members of the crowd fired in the air, forcing the raiding team to retreat,
according to official sources.
A city government official, who was part of the raiding team and was injured by
the mob, alleged that the Hall Road Traders Union (HRTU) was behind the action.
A complaint from the city government has reached Qila Gujjar Singh police
station against the union on charges of attempted murder, terrorism and
interfering in official matters.
“We are registering the case on the complaint of Mr Khalid Sultan (district
coordination officer),” Cantt Superintendent of Police Dr Waseem told Daily
Times.
The official said union members had approached the city government a couple of
weeks ago and asked it to remove encroachments, resolve a row over parking
stands and close porn shops.
The encroachment and parking problems were resolved, and a team of community
development officials and Civil Defence policemen gathered at
“We tried to talk to them, but the mob attacked us,” the official said. The
mob smashed the windows of cars and attacked some of the raiding party members,
some of whom landed in
The official said the union had asked Mr Sultan, the DCO, to clear
“They wanted the crackdown because the vendors outside were taking customers
from the plazas. Once the team started raiding porn shops inside the two plazas,
the union immediately turned against us because it damaged their own business,”
he said.
Pornographic CDs are available for less than a hundred rupees each at