BAHAWALNAGAR: A man and his son have been arrested for allegedly unleashing their pet dog on a deaf-mute boy in the Madressah area here on Sunday.

The FIR registered with the Madrassa police says that a 15-year-old deaf-mute boy, Muhammad Ali, a resident of Jattan village was on visit to his relatives living at Basti Kaley Khan.

He passing from a street, when the suspects, Jahangir and his son Saleem, unleashed their pet dog on the boy.

The dog attacked and injured the boy, but he was rescued by some passersby and rushed to the district headquarters hospital for treatment.

A police spokesperson told Dawn that the father and son had been arrested and were being interrogated by the police.

Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2026