ISLAMABAD: The capital police have registered a case against the family members of the boy, who went missing on Feb1 and was found dead in a nullah, for staging a protest on Thursday against police failure to recover the boy, sources told Dawn.

The boy disappeared on Feb 1 and police in response to a complaint, registered a case on Feb 2.

The boy’s family, relatives, and neighbours staged the protest at Taramri Chowk by [lacing the boy’s body in the middle of the road, police said, adding they blocked Lathrar and Park roads for over an hour.

According to the FIR, protesters misbehaved with police and put up resistance when police tried to remove blockade from the roads.

Published in Dawn, February 22nd, 2020

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