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Blasphemy case registered against mentally challenged Muslim
[Pak Daily Times] The Kot Addu police have started the paperwork but haven't done much else under the blasphemy law against a mentally challenged Mohammedan at the request of a local mosque's holy man allegedly in an attempt to settle a rivalry with the family of the accused. The case has been registered against Muhammad Amjad, son of Muhammad Nazir, by the holy man of their local mosque named Muhammad Sajid in Chak 621 PDA Chowk Sarwar Shaheedwala area of Kot Addu. The case number 4/11 was registered by the Chowk Sarwar police on Wednesday while the complainant has also accused Amjad's father Muhammad Nazir and a relative Muhammad Iqbal of conspiring to desecrate the holy Koran with the main accused. The police raided the house of the accused and rounded up the son and his father on the same day on Sajid's request, who stated in his registered FIR against Amjad that he set the holy Koran on fire in the courtyard of the mosque, where he (Sajid) is serving as the chief holy man, and then bravely ran away. Sajid claimed that the incident took place on Wednesday morning, but he did not see Amjad perpetrating the act personally, and only found the desecrated Koran in the mosque premises, while his students told him that the deed was committed by Amjad. Moreover, he has also stated in the FIR that Amjad committed the blasphemy on the orders of his father Nazir and a relative Muhammad Iqbal, and sought action against both of them as well. However, The infamous However... locals and human rights ... which are not the same thing as individual rights, mind you... activists dealing with the case told Daily Times that Amjad had been mentally challenged since his birth and was not aware of the worldly affairs, and it was impossible for him to conspire or understand the meaning of blasphemy at all. Posted by: Fred 2011-01-08 |
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