Sialkot police have registered a case against a popular TikToker and eight other named organisers after a stampede at his mehndi ceremony and prize-distribution event left two people dead and 18 others injured at Faraz Cricket Ground on Daska Road.
Police said six of the suspects named in the case have been arrested, while the TikToker at the centre of the event fled the scene after the rush and remains at large, according to reports published on Monday, 2 November 2026.
Why the case matters is clear from the scale of the gathering and the way it was promoted. Hundreds of people had turned up after a lucky draw offering 50 motorcycles and a car was advertised on social media, and the event went ahead at a sports ground under a permission that district officials say was meant for something far smaller and enclosed.
How the rush began
Organiser Muhammad Ansar Jatt, known online as Mr Pattlo, had announced a mehndi event and prize-distribution ceremony at Faraz Cricket Ground on Friday night, Sialkot police said. Dawn reported that the gathering was held at the ground on Daska Road, where a large crowd had assembled for the ceremony and the promised draw.
Trouble broke out when the stadium gates were opened and the waiting crowd was told through loudspeakers to enter the ground at the same time, according to police and media reports. Dawn’s newspaper report added that video footage showed guards opening the gate, and then a man using a wooden club to push people back out of the gate, which caused the stampede.
Several people fell to the ground in the rush and were trampled, The Express Tribune reported. Rescue 1122 teams and police reached the venue and shifted the injured to hospitals, including Allama Iqbal Memorial Teaching Hospital.
Rescue officials initially reported one death and 13 injured. Sialkot police later put the number of injured at 18 and confirmed a second death on Sunday, taking the toll to two.
One victim was identified as Muhammad Aqeel, 30, a resident of Budha Goraya in Daska, who died while being taken to hospital after being crushed in the rush, Dawn and The Express Tribune reported. The second victim was identified as Muhammad Rehan, who had been critically injured and was referred to Mayo Hospital in Lahore before he died, The Express Tribune and Minute Mirror reported. Minute Mirror put Rehan’s age at 22 and his home area as Glotian Morr in Sialkot.
Sialkot District Police Officer Captain (retired) Dost Muhammad reached the venue with a large police contingent and Elite Force personnel, reports said. He later confirmed that six people involved in managing the event had been arrested, while efforts were continuing to arrest the remaining suspects named in the case.
Case registered, six arrested
Police registered the first information report at Motra Police Station on 31 October on the complaint of station house officer Mubeen Ahmed, Dawn reported. The case names nine people in total, along with 40 to 45 unidentified security guards who were on duty at the event.
Those named include TikToker Muhammad Ansar Jatt, his brother Kashif Bashir, ground owner Shahid Javed, and organisers Daniyal Munir, Munir Ahmed, Mohsin Ali, Irshad Ali, Abdullah Mehdi and Zohaib Mansha, according to Dawn. The Nation gave the same list of nine names, with Ansar Mahmood listed as the organiser’s name and Haji Shahid Javed as the ground owner.
The case was registered under sections 322, 431, 440, 188, 109, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code, along with Section 16 of the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance, The Express Tribune and The Nation reported. Police said the charges relate to alleged violations of the permit conditions and standard operating procedures, misuse of loudspeakers, blockade of the main road, vandalism of citizens’ motorcycles and causing loss of life and property, Dawn reported.
Police also seized the prizes that had been advertised for the lucky draw. Sialkot police confirmed that 50 motorcycles and a car intended for distribution through the draw were taken into custody, Dawn reported.
Dawn reported that the TikToker fled the scene immediately after the incident. Minute Mirror also reported that the main accused remained at large while six people had been arrested. No statement from the TikToker himself was carried in the reports checked for this story.
Permit revoked after violations
District administration officials said the no-objection certificate issued for the event did not cover the gathering that actually took place. A spokesperson for the Sialkot district administration said the certificate had been issued for a mehfil-e-samaa, a gathering for devotional music and poetry, during a private event within an enclosed space in Daska, Dawn reported.
After reviewing reports of the gathering, Sialkot Deputy Commissioner Awais Mushtaq revoked the previously issued certificate, Dawn reported. Officials said the organisers had violated the conditions of the permission and the established safety procedures.
The Nation reported that preliminary police findings showed the organisers had announced the lucky draw on social media, drawing an unexpectedly large crowd, and that the stampede was triggered when an announcement over the loudspeaker directed participants to enter the ground simultaneously. Police also pointed to damage to public property and a massive traffic blockade along the main Daska-Sialkot Road, The Nation reported.
Rescue officials had earlier noted that they had not received prior information about the large gathering planned at the cricket ground, The Tribune International reported. That detail, along with the revoked permission, is now central to the investigation into how a private celebration turned into a fatal crowd crush.
Police said the investigation is continuing and that raids are under way to arrest the remaining nominated suspects. What happens next will depend on those arrests and on the findings of the inquiry into the permission, the crowd management and the gate arrangements at Faraz Cricket Ground on the night of the event.
For families of the two men who died, the case has already turned a wedding celebration into a criminal investigation. For officials in Sialkot, it has raised a wider question about large influencer-promoted gatherings: who checks the crowd, the gate and the permission before hundreds of people are invited to turn up for a prize draw.
