LARKANA, July 10: Police on Tuesday booked 150 flood victims on charges of instigating people living in relief camps to stage demonstrations.

Assistant Sub-Inspector Shahid Memon filed a case on behalf of the state under sections 353, 341, 147 and 148 against 17 nominated people, including Mashooque, Ghulam Haidar, Ali dost, Ghulam Qadir Chandio, Bashir Chandio, Shahzado, Nazeer Chandio and the rest declared unknown .

Police arrested Mohammed Yousuf Janveri and Mohammed Waris Shabrani. All the people nominated in the FIR were the people whose villages had been flooded in floods in Qambar-Shahdadkot district, sources said and added that police had booked them for protesting on Monday against the government for failing to look after them.

Ghulam Mujtaba Isran, president of People’s Party Parliamentarians of Qambar-Shahdadkot district, said that on the one hand the government had failed to provide assistance to the marooned people while on the other it had booked them under different sections when they protested against flaws in the relief operation.—Correspondent