A Pakistani Court Sentenced A Hindu Rights Activist To Life Imprisonment On A False Murder Charge

A well-known human rights activist and advocate has been sentenced to life in prison in a murder case by a district court in Tharparkar, Pakistan.

 

Veerji Kohli, who was a bonded labor as a child, rose from his pathetic world to that of the chairman of the Berano union council of the district. He is a member of Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP), led by Bilawal Bhutto Zardari.

But his status and deeds, which you will read later in this article, could not save him from being implicated in a false case and getting sentenced for the same.

In 2011, Kohli was accused of killing Mohammed Sualeh Shoro in Bhansar village. An FIR named him and 12 others for allegedly killing Shoro over a land dispute. While the others have been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment, it is Kohli who has been sentenced for life.

 

And this is what has riled activists and advocates in Pakistan.

They are standing behind Kohli and claim that he is being framed for what he has done for the welfare of the district directly going against the oppressive feudal lords of the region.

#VeerjiKohli is lawyer by profession and was once a bonded labor himself; this is the injustice system that easily takes OUT the HONEST ONE https://t.co/oADyfJ2bFQ

— Alamdar Khan (@Alamdar405) April 1, 2017

#PPP stands with @Veerji_Kolhi & will fight for him up to apex court through every moral & legal support to him #PPPagainstInjustice

— Surendar Valasai (@SurendarValasai) April 1, 2017

Veerji is lawyer, activist & eleted chairman of a Union Council. What is Hindu or Muslim Samaji Razakar #dawn #Justice4VeerjiKolhi https://t.co/EzZAkhG86L

— Adam Malik (@adam_k_malik) April 2, 2017

#JusticeSystem,here a killer with acceptance of 370 murders can be bailed out while @Veerji_Kolhi Gets life imprisonment on Fake Charge :/ pic.twitter.com/5AV1CvKBR8

— Civil Obedient Farid (@faridmemonpsf) April 2, 2017

Shocked to hear of @Veerji_Kolhi ‘s conviction.He’s been working tirelessly for the people of Sindh. A human rights activist Not a criminal https://t.co/l0Eb4EjdFy

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— Alizeh Iqbal Haider (@AlizehIHaider) April 2, 2017

Chronicling Kohli’s life, Mehar Khursheed writes how he transformed the backward region into a “shining example of renewable energy” with the assistance of Pashtun environmental and human rights activist Meena Gabeena.

Gabeena is herself calling for help to free Kohli of the charge.

In 2010 there was rape case of a girl named kastoori and Veerji Kohli fought for kastoori took the case2the SC&they filed a fake case on him https://t.co/3jMMSb2MsC

— meena gabeena (@gabeeno) April 1, 2017

2day he is in jail becuz of fighting4kastoori who was raped7yrs ago by feudals who thn filed a murder case on Veerji https://t.co/Z9HxngUqxW

— meena gabeena (@gabeeno) April 2, 2017

For all amazing social work that @Veerji_Kolhi has done.. today he has been given life imprisonment on a false case filed on him! Plz help pic.twitter.com/K0SUribP79

— meena gabeena (@gabeeno) April 1, 2017

As a government official, Kohli constructed five schools and four medical facilities for the people of the district.

He maintains that his work and activism earned him the ire of a section of the feudal tribes, who then framed him in the killing of Shoro.

According to a report, Kohli helped secure the release of bonded laborers from the clutches of feudal lords. When a Hindu girl Kastoori Kohli, of the Kohli community, was raped by local feudal lords, he opposed the biased attitude of the police which led to the termination of some officers.

This made him the target of the police as well as the feudal lords. He survived an assassination attempt before getting framed in a case. The police in Pakistan acted in collusion with the feudal lords to register a murder case against him.

 

Sindh Uni m Holi Celebrate karnay k jurm m students k ID card Zabat, written m Mafinamay. Plz Notice @BBhuttoZardari @CMMuradAliShah pic.twitter.com/2iOwWfYO5K

— Veerji Kolhi (@Veerji_Kolhi) March 26, 2017

Yet in the increasingly becoming hopeless land of Pakistan, Kohli has a sliver of hope. He will be challenging the verdict in the high court.