The baby is on bail and due to appear at the next hearing on April 12, but Yasin said he was not sure if he would take him to court for the case.“There is immense pressure on me from various corners,” he said.
At his first appearance in court last week, Musa cried while his fingerprints were taken by a court official. Later, the baby sucked on a bottle of milk and tried to grab journalists’ microphones as his grandfather spoke to the media.
“He does not even know how to pick up his milk bottle properly, how can he stone the police?” Yasin asked journalists at the court last Thursday.
The baby apparently was charged because an assistant sub-inspector complained in a crime report that Musa’s whole family beat him up and injured his head.
The case has once again highlighted dysfunction in Pakistan’s police and justice system.
Poorly trained and underpaid police are frequently accused of corruption and human rights abuses. Many are not even qualified to write a crime report.
