Two days in the past, a Christian adolescence was once passed down a demise sentence on a blasphemy price via a district and periods court docket of Bahawalpur in Pakistan. A positive of Rs 20,000 was once additionally imposed. The accused is known as a 19-year-old boy named Noman Masih, a resident of Islami Colony Bahawalpur, round 400 kilometres from Lahore.
A grievance was once filed towards Nauman Masih in 2019 below phase 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), and he was once taken into custody via the Baghdadul Jadeed police. He was once charged with setting up a WhatsApp crew and disseminating blasphemous content material important of non secular figures. Further District and Classes Pass judgement on Hafeezur Rehman Khan heard the case. Witnesses and forensic proof have been reportedly equipped within the court docket.
“The prosecutors offered the forensic document of Masih’s cell phone which proved that he shared the blasphemous content material via WhatsApp. But even so some witnesses have been additionally offered within the court docket,” a court docket authentic knowledgeable.
The cell phone the perpetrator used to control the WhatsApp crew and distribute the offensive content material was once additionally discovered via the police investigators. He’ll serve further six months in jail if is not able to pay the positive of Rs 20,000. He has already spent 4 years at the back of bars after his arrest.
Noman Masih was once accused of blasphemy for allegedly wearing blasphemous pictures in his cell phone, and the First Knowledge Record (FIR) was once registered towards him below Phase 295-C, which has a compulsory demise sentence.
Whoever defiles the sacred title of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) via phrases, both spoken or written, or via visual illustration, or via any imputation, innuendo, or insinuation, without delay or not directly, will probably be punished with demise or imprisonment for lifestyles, and shall even be susceptible to a positive, in keeping with Phase 295-C of the Islamic penal code in Pakistan.
Blasphemy is against the law that carries a demise sentence in more than one Islamic nations, together with Pakistan. Accusations of blasphemy are extraordinarily delicate within the nation or even unverified claims incite crowds which lead to critical violence and demise. In lots of instances, the ones charged are murdered via throngs ahead of the graduation of felony court cases. The already marginalised minorities, in particular Hindus are the high objectives of such allegations.