SOCIETY: THE SOUND AND THE FURY.

It was just over a month ago that the mercurial sound artist known as DJ Butt was assailed by the police in Model Town Lahore.

He was sleeping in his cafe-turned-event management office at the time. Now, when the newsreels and talk shows have moved on, when the murmurs of political retribution have gone quiet, he shows me CCTV footage from the day of the incident. He wants the world to know exactly what happened.

The 11 cameras cover the entirety of his three-floor set-up. A basement which he uses as a store room, a ground floor with a kitchen and some tables, and a second floor with two white Rexine sofas sitting next to a computer. His work station.

The time stamp says 2am on December 9. He's sitting with his video editor and some clients, discussing a promotional video for their event. At this hour, the market outside is empty. He points to the footage and highlights the speakers in his basement, covered and unused. Speakers that will be the subject of police charges in a few hours - that he was playing music loud enough to wake the dead.

After the clients leave, he spends the night rendering videos till he falls asleep on one of the sofas, at eight in the morning. At 12pm, a police van drives up to the cafe entrance. One of the officers asks Butt's office helper, who's dusting and rearranging furniture, where his employer is. The boy tells them he's sleeping, and they leave, only to return with more vans and more purpose 30 minutes later. The officers climb up the stairs, this time to demand Butt's presence.

The office boy tells them he's in the washroom on the roof. I see two of them push him aside and burst into the final CCTV frame. On an otherwise quiet Wednesday afternoon, while he's washing his hands in front of a faucet, DJ Butt is being commanded by police officers to accompany them to the A Block Model Town station. Without telling him why.

Outside the cafe, two Dolphin Police bikes and one Police Response Unit vehicle join the scene; inside, Butt can be seen remonstrating on camera. He says he kept asking the police what crime he was being charged under, but their reply was only insistence that he turn himself in. Butt takes out a phone to call his brother next. "I had to ask him to come and help."

The most famous sound engineer in Pakistan finds himself caught, yet again, in the crossfire between the government and the opposition. But who is DJ Butt anyway?

It's at this point that the officers start dragging him by his arms. When that doesn't work, they grab one of his legs and start pulling. Two officers at first, then more join the tussle. Butt tries to flatten himself on the ground, but enough hands exert enough force to drag him away. When they reach the stairs, Butt manages to entangle his free leg inside a railing. For the next 30 seconds, they're unable to make him move, until one policeman in a hoodie starts kicking him with his leather boots, to force him to let go.

Shouting for help, screaming injustice to his neighbours, DJ Butt is dragged outside and put in the...