KARACHI, March 8: The Pakistan Peoples Party’s on Wednesday condemned the registration of an FIR against its MPA Mukesh Kumar. The PPP declared that it would resort to all legal and constitutional modes of protest. It also termed the police raid on the MPA’s house as an act of political victimization.

Speaking at a press conference, Sindh President of the PPP Syed Qaim Ali Shah, Aftab Shaban Mirani and Taj Haider termed it revenge on part of Chief Minister Arbab Rahim for the defeat of Kishanchand Parwani in the senate election.   Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that on a compliant by a DSP, an FIR was lodged against Mukesh Kumar at 12.40am on Wednesday at the Artillery police station and he was implicated in “dacoity, robbery, obstruction in duty and mischief” besides causing damage to government property during the polling for the Senate election.

He said the police had refused to provide a copy of the FIR, which was obtained after the intervention of the court and after that the Sindh high court granted bail to Mukesh Kumar.

Recalling the March 6 incident, Syed Qaim Ali Shah said that during the Senate polling in the Sindh assembly building, a man in civil dress asked Mukesh Kumar for body search which he disallowed and asked the man to identify himself. The man thrashed Mukesh Kumar and tore off his clothes and also manhandled another MPA, Irfan Ali Shah, who tried to rescue Mukesh.