{"id":11485,"date":"2014-04-07T15:21:37","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11485"},"modified":"2014-04-07T15:24:48","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T15:24:48","slug":"pakistan-nine-month-old-boy-accused-of-planning-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11485","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan: Nine-month-old boy accused of planning murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/74035139_babycourt2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11486\" alt=\"_74035139_babycourt2\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/74035139_babycourt2.png\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/74035139_babycourt2.png 624w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/74035139_babycourt2-300x168.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a>A nine-month-old boy has appeared in court in Pakistan on charges of planning a murder, threatening police and interfering in state affairs, it appears.<\/p>\n<p>Baby Muhammad Mosa Khan is one of more than 30 people facing charges after a police raid to catch suspected gas thieves in the city of Lahore, The News website reports.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the suspects tried to murder security officers by pelting them with stones. But the Times of India newspaper quotes the infant&#8217;s father as saying the group was protesting against an electricity shortage.<\/p>\n<p>The infant appeared in the courtroom sitting on his father&#8217;s lap and clasping a bottle. He was given bail and the case has been adjourned until 12 April, reports from Lahore say. His father is also among the accused.<\/p>\n<p>The murder charges against a baby have alarmed Punjab&#8217;s Chief Minister Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif. He has asked for clarification from the province&#8217;s inspector-general of police and demanded &#8220;stern action&#8221; against the officials who registered the case.<\/p>\n<p>The assistant superintendent who filed the charges has subsequently been suspended,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.com.pk\/national\/04-Apr-2014\/vigilant-police-book-infant-on-murder-charges\">The Nation website says<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nine-month-old boy has appeared in court in Pakistan on charges of planning a murder, threatening police and interfering in state affairs, it appears. Baby Muhammad Mosa Khan is one of more than 30 people facing charges after a police raid to catch suspected gas thieves in the city of Lahore, The News website reports. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[14,7],"class_list":["post-11485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah","tag-togbe-afede-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}