By India Today World Desk: A Christian youth was sentenced to dying and slapped with a advantageous of Rs 20,000 by a Pakistani court docket docket on Friday for allegedly committing blasphemy.
The accused, acknowledged as Nauman Masih, 19, is a resident of Islami Colony Bahawalpur, which is spherical 400 kilometres from Lahore. According to police, he was arrested 4 years prior to now primarily based totally on a criticism that he had shared blasphemous supplies on a messaging app.
The district and intervals court docket docket of Pakistan’s Bahawalpur metropolis awarded capital punishment to the accused after the prosecution launched proof and witnesses in the direction of him, as per a court docket docket official.
“The prosecutors presented the forensic record of Maih’s cellphone which proved that he shared the blasphemous content through WhatsApp,” an official said.
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He further added, “Some witnesses were also presented in the court.”
Blasphemy is a very delicate downside in Pakistan. Even unproven allegations can stir mobs and violence. In many situations, the accused are killed by mobs even sooner than the commencement of licensed proceedings.
This yr, on May 7, an individual was lynched by a mob after he allegedly made blasphemous remarks all through a rally of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social gathering in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Pakistan is among the many many countries the place blasphemy is punishable by dying.
Earlier on March 24, 2023, a Muslim man in Pakistan was awarded a dying sentence over blasphemous content material materials on a WhatsApp group. He was convicted beneath the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act and Anti-Terrorist Act by the court docket docket in Peshawar.