By Mohammad Saleem
FAISALABAD: A blasphemy case has been registered against more than four dozen Christians, thirty five of them nominated, and a Muslim on charges of demolishing hundreds of Muslim graves in Chak 206-GB.
Christian flatted the graves after being assured by a local politician backed by the Pakistan Muslim League-N that graveyard land has been allotted for the Christians.
On the complaint of Ashiq Hussain, a case (316/14) under section 295-C, 506-B, 447, 148, 147 of PPC has been registered with the Murid Wala police.
The applicant and accused belong to chak 206-GB.
Submitting the application, Hussain said people armed with tractors and other tools had demolished 400-500 graves of Muslims in Chak 206-GB graveyard on Tuesday last. The attackers wanted to occupy the land that was foiled with the help of area people who reached the spot after knowing the incident.
He said the armed men hurled life threats to the villagers on resistance.
The accused had also cut down a number of trees and made away with them.
As many as thirty four Christians named in the case included Anwar, Arshad, Nazir, Walayat, Papi, Fareed, Tariq, Hanif, Waris, Fayyaz, Francis, Ilyas, Mushtaq, Nana, Rabi, Rafiq, Khalid, Shafiq, Hanif, Altaf, Abid, Aamir, Zahid, Ahsan, Nasir, Pervez, Ibrar, Arshad, Rasheed and Kala Maseeh.
Wasif Iqbal, a Muslim has also been named in the case.
As many as twenty accused are unidentified.
Ramzan Ali, of Chak 206-GB, told that Iqbal, a politician, had asked Christians of his village to get possession of the land. For this, he said Iqbal had sent his son Wasif along with Christians to flatten the graves. He said they succeeded to damage hundreds of graves that infuriated the area people who had been demanding exemplary punishment for the accused people.
He claimed that police had been favouring the influential politician and provided him and opportunity to seek pre-arrest bail. The tractor of Iqbal used in flattening the graves has also not been taken into custody and still present at his outhouse that was adding fuel to the fire.
Villagers are planning to stage protest demonstration against police for dealing the accused leniently, he added.
SHO Muridwala told it was an old graveyard which had no space for burial now and Muslims were using another graveyard. He said eight accused were arrested and sent on judicial remand
He said all nominated accused of the case had secured pre-arrest bails.
The police mistakenly added section 295-c in the case that has now been replaced with appropriate section of 297 of PPC, he added.
He said incident happened mistakenly rather with any planning and villagers had also realized the facts.
FAISALABAD: A blasphemy case has been registered against more than four dozen Christians, thirty five of them nominated, and a Muslim on charges of demolishing hundreds of Muslim graves in Chak 206-GB.
Christian flatted the graves after being assured by a local politician backed by the Pakistan Muslim League-N that graveyard land has been allotted for the Christians.
On the complaint of Ashiq Hussain, a case (316/14) under section 295-C, 506-B, 447, 148, 147 of PPC has been registered with the Murid Wala police.
The applicant and accused belong to chak 206-GB.
Submitting the application, Hussain said people armed with tractors and other tools had demolished 400-500 graves of Muslims in Chak 206-GB graveyard on Tuesday last. The attackers wanted to occupy the land that was foiled with the help of area people who reached the spot after knowing the incident.
He said the armed men hurled life threats to the villagers on resistance.
The accused had also cut down a number of trees and made away with them.
As many as thirty four Christians named in the case included Anwar, Arshad, Nazir, Walayat, Papi, Fareed, Tariq, Hanif, Waris, Fayyaz, Francis, Ilyas, Mushtaq, Nana, Rabi, Rafiq, Khalid, Shafiq, Hanif, Altaf, Abid, Aamir, Zahid, Ahsan, Nasir, Pervez, Ibrar, Arshad, Rasheed and Kala Maseeh.
Wasif Iqbal, a Muslim has also been named in the case.
As many as twenty accused are unidentified.
Ramzan Ali, of Chak 206-GB, told that Iqbal, a politician, had asked Christians of his village to get possession of the land. For this, he said Iqbal had sent his son Wasif along with Christians to flatten the graves. He said they succeeded to damage hundreds of graves that infuriated the area people who had been demanding exemplary punishment for the accused people.
He claimed that police had been favouring the influential politician and provided him and opportunity to seek pre-arrest bail. The tractor of Iqbal used in flattening the graves has also not been taken into custody and still present at his outhouse that was adding fuel to the fire.
Villagers are planning to stage protest demonstration against police for dealing the accused leniently, he added.
SHO Muridwala told it was an old graveyard which had no space for burial now and Muslims were using another graveyard. He said eight accused were arrested and sent on judicial remand
He said all nominated accused of the case had secured pre-arrest bails.
The police mistakenly added section 295-c in the case that has now been replaced with appropriate section of 297 of PPC, he added.
He said incident happened mistakenly rather with any planning and villagers had also realized the facts.
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