--- title: "ASI faces legal action over incident involving currency notes and dancers at shrine festival in Sahiwal" description: "Most outlets led with the arrest of a police ASI following a viral video of him tossing currency notes at dancers during a shrine festival in Sahiwal. Dawn described the case as being registered on the direction of a senior officer and named the individuals involved. Daily Pakistan (English) emphasized the public outrage and the prompt response from police high-ups. Both excerpts noted the legal action taken, but Daily Pakistan framed the incident as having sparked online backlash, while Dawn presented the action more as a procedural follow-up." url: https://harzaviya.com/stories/15183-punjab-police-asi-lands-behind-bars-for-showering-currency site: HarZaviya language: en --- # ASI faces legal action over incident involving currency notes and dancers at shrine festival in Sahiwal pakistan · updated 19 Oct 2026, 12:41 PM PKT · 18–19 Oct 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets **HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts: > Most outlets led with the arrest of a police ASI following a viral video of him tossing currency notes at dancers during a shrine festival in Sahiwal. Dawn described the case as being registered on the direction of a senior officer and named the individuals involved. Daily Pakistan (English) emphasized the public outrage and the prompt response from police high-ups. Both excerpts noted the legal action taken, but Daily Pakistan framed the incident as having sparked online backlash, while Dawn presented the action more as a procedural follow-up. ## Same story from 2 outlets Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source. - **Daily Pakistan (English)** — [Punjab Police ASI lands behind bars for showering currency notes at Dancers during festival](https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/19-Oct-2026/punjab-police-asi-lands-behind-bars-for-showering-currency-notes-at-dancers-during-festival) · 19 Oct 2026, 12:41 PM PKT > SAHIWAL – A viral video showing Sahiwal Police ASI tossing currency notes at dancers during a shrine festival sparked outrage online, prompting police high-ups to order legal action. Taking notice of the incident, DPO Usman Tipu directed Yousafwala Police to register a case against ASI Rustam Ali Bhatti, posted at Fatah Sher Police Station, and […] - **Dawn** — [ASI held for showering money on dancers in Sahiwal](https://www.dawn.com/news/2037920/asi-held-for-showering-money-on-dancers-in-sahiwal) · 18 Oct 2026, 8:57 AM PKT · 84% identical wording to the newest filing > SAHIWAL: On the direction of DPO Usman Tipu, Yousafwala Police have registered a case against Rustam Ali Bhatti, ASI of Fatah Sher Police Station, and Bashir Ahmed Bhatti, custodian of the shrine of Hazrat Diwan Baba Haji Sher, in village 55/5-L, tehsil Sahiwal, for showering currency notes over dancers during the annual shrine festival on Friday night. The police officer himself was seen showe... 2 articles from 2 outlets, 18–19 Oct 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text. --- HarZaviya compares how Pakistani outlets cover the same story. It stores and shows each outlet's headline and a short excerpt, and links out — it never copies article text, and every headline belongs to the outlet that wrote it. It takes no stance on any outlet. Pages: [Top stories](https://harzaviya.com/) · [Latest headlines](https://harzaviya.com/feed) · [Archive](https://harzaviya.com/archive) · [Why](https://harzaviya.com/why) · [Sources](https://harzaviya.com/sources) · [Methodology](https://harzaviya.com/methodology) · [About](https://harzaviya.com/about) · [About the bot](https://harzaviya.com/about-bot) Trackers: [Gold prices](https://harzaviya.com/gold-prices) · [Fuel prices](https://harzaviya.com/fuel-prices) · [Stock exchange](https://harzaviya.com/stock-exchange) Any page on this site is available as markdown: send `Accept: text/markdown`, or add `.md` to the path.