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Native name | Shahnawaz Kumbhar |
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Date | 18 September 2024[1] |
Time | 01:20 a.m. [2] |
Venue | Sindhri[1] |
Location | Sindhi Thanro, Mirpurkhas, Sindh, Pakistan[1] |
Cause | Extrajudicial murder by police[1] |
Motive | Blasphemy[1] |
First reporter | Riaz Sohail & Nick Marsh[1] |
Deaths | 1[1] |
Burial | No burial; instead, he was burnt.[1] |
Convicted | Local religious clerics and the police team led by DIG Javed Sonharo Jiskani. |
Sentence | No prosecutions; but DIGP Mirpurkhas, SSP Umerkot, and other concerned police officers were suspended from their posts |
Shahnawaz Kumbhar (Sindhi: شاهنواز ڪنڀر) was a local hospital doctor in Umerkot, Sindh, Pakistan, who was killed in fake encounter by the Sindh Police on September 17, 2024.[3] He was accused by a local mosque cleric of using blasphemous language against the Prophet Muhammad on social media.[4] After a case was registered by the police based on a complaint from local mosque cleric Sabir Soomro under Article 295C[5], Dr. Shahnawaz was dismissed from his job at the civil hospital in Umerkot.[3]
During the night of September 18-19, reports emerged that Dr. Shahnawaz had been killed in a police encounter.[6][7] His relatives, who initially believed he was safe after being surrendered that night, were shocked to learn the next morning that he had been killed.[8][9][3]