Restaurant workers informed AFP that almost all of these arrested had been younger individuals (Representational)
Lahore:
A bunch of law enforcement officials in Pakistan flipped out when a takeaway joint refused at hand over free burgers, detaining all 19 workers on the department.
Employees on the fashionable chain Johnny & Jugnu within the jap metropolis of Lahore had been rounded up and held for seven hours in a single day on Saturday, abandoning unattended kitchens and hungry clients.
“This isn’t the primary time one thing like this has occurred with our kitchen groups at our restaurant, however we need to be certain that that is the final,” the quick meals chain mentioned in an announcement printed on social media.
The meat began when workers on the restaurant refused a “request from a really excessive profile particular visitor”.
Restaurant workers informed AFP that almost all of these arrested had been younger individuals, together with many college college students.
Following outcry amongst followers, 9 law enforcement officials concerned had been suspended yesterday, senior provincial police official Inam Ghani mentioned on Twitter.
“Nobody is allowed to take the regulation into his personal palms,” Ghani mentioned.
Pakistan’s law enforcement officials are notorious for corruption and for demanding kickbacks from native companies.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan has known as for a reform of Punjab’s police power, saying “cronies” had been appointed by politicians to manage police stations.
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