Punjab Law Minister Raja Basharat Friday said the Punjab government would take strict action against the culprits allegedly involved in Sialkot incident.
Talking to a private news channel, he said the local police reached at the crime scene soon after receiving information and arrested more than hundred people allegedly involved in the incident.
Raja Basharat said many teams were investigating the incident site through closed-circuit television footage and the police were arresting more people allegedly involved in the shameful act.
He said the investigation teams would soon ascertain the actual reasons of the incident in detail adding no leniency to be adopted with the miscreants.
He said the trial would be carried out in the terrorism court to curb such incidents in the future.
The Sialkot incident arrests
Punjab police have arrested more than 100 accused including the two main accused of the Sialkot incident and also registered a case in this regard, according to a handout issued by Punjab police spokesman here Friday.
Regarding police operation and progress on the incident so far, the spokesman said that the police have arrested two main accused Farhan Idrees and Usman Rashid involved in the violence and provocation, asserting that main accused Farhan Idrees can be seen in the video torturing and provoking.
He said that a case has been registered under the provisions of terrorism act on the police complaint. He confirmed that police have now arrested more than 100 people involved in the incident, whose role was being determined by CCTV footage.
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