The cleric who was arrested yesterday over suspicion of planting evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy was produced in court today and the police submitted an application to the court requesting for the remand of Khalid Jadoon.
Source/Credit: Radio Pakistan
By Radio Pakistan | September 2, 2012
Rimsha Case: Molvi Khalid Chishti sent to Jail on 14 days Judicial Remand
An Islamabad court has sent Imam of a local mosque to Jail on fourteen-day remand in connection with
Duty Magistrate of Islamabad court‚ Nasar Minallah Baloch has sent Imam Masjid Khalid Jadoon Chishti to Adiala Jail on judicial remand for fourteen days.
The cleric who was arrested yesterday over suspicion of planting evidence against a Christian girl accused of blasphemy was produced in court today and the police submitted an application to the court requesting for the remand of Khalid Jadoon.
Police sources said that the Imam would be charged under section 196 of the Criminal Procedure Code for the offence of ‘deliberate and malicious act of outraging the religious feelings of any class of citizens by insulting its religious beliefs'.
The imam of the mosque was arrested after his assistants told a magistrate that he had added pages from the Quran to the burnt pages to strengthen the case against the girl.
Zubair and the two campanions told police they protested to Imam that he should not add something to the evidence but he said this is the only way to expel the Christians from this area.
The police official investigating the case told media that by putting these pages in the ashes the Imam also committed desecration of the Holy Quran and he is being charged with blasphemy.
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