TOBA TEK SINGH: Faisalabad’s Ghulam Muhammadabad police arrested four people for burning a mentally challenged woman in the name of “spiritual treatment”.

A Faisalabad police press release issued on Tuesday night said that CPO Syed Khalid Mahmood Hamdani took notice after media reports became viral about the incident and an FIR was registered under sections 336-B and 34 of the Pakistan Penal Code in which complainant Wasim Shahbaz said his sister, Sonia, had a mental health condition and he discussed the issue with Wasim Ilyas who suggested that his mother-in-law, Shamim Bibi, was a spiritual healer and she could cure her.

He took Sonia to the house where Shamim Bibi, Wasim Ilyas, his wife Alia Bibi, and mother Zarina Bibi detained her in a room and not only severally tortured her but also burned her chest, face and eyes.

She was admitted to the Allied Hospital in a serious condition.

Police have arrested the four suspects.

Source: Dawn