Watch: Pakistani man brutally thrashes transgender woman, arrested

NEW DELHI: Transgender people in Pakistan are social outcasts who are often forced into begging, dancing and prostitution to earn money. Fearing attacks, most either change their names or use only one name. A disturbing video of a man flogging a transgender woman went viral earlier this month. Today Pakistani police arrested 10 alleged members of a criminal gang for the crime and posting a video of the abuse on social media. The prime accused, who identified himself as Jajja, allegedly thrashed the transgender person for organising a function without his permission. He told Dunya News that he was friends with the victim. The video contains graphic content. "I was punishing him because he didn't refrain from his bad habits, which I pointed out to him several times," he said in an interview conducted while he was in police custody. TransAction, a local transgender rights group, posted a video interview with another transgender woman who said she was present when the attack took place. She said the gang members barged into a house where several transgender women were living, beating and torturing one of them for several hours and shaving the heads of others.