LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious alarm and disgust at a policeman 'raiding a renowned art gallery in Lahore, beating the woman curator there and harassing others on the premises. The HRCP said in a statement: The HRCP is appalled by the vigilante actions of the Shadman Police Station House Officer (SHO), who visited the Nairang Art Gallery in Lahore on Tuesday, brutally assaulted the woman curator there, accusing her of running a place of fahashi, and harassed others present at the gallery. The SHOs merciless beating of a woman is something that cannot be expected of any civilized human being and is all the more revolting because the offender is an officer of a force tasked with protecting people from the sort of excesses he committed. The policeman had no warrants, nor any legal authority to barge into the art gallery like he did along with a police party, which advised the curator to leave the room after her beating rather than intervening to save her from the assault. The HRCP hopes that a case would be promptly registered against the offender, and that he would be effectively prosecuted for his repulsive actions, the statement further added. The HRCP also urged the government to make a formal apology to the curator for the actions of a government agent.