Man sentenced for 25 years in prison over desecrating sacred scriptures
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LAHORE: A sessions court here on Tuesday sentenced a man to 25 years rigorous punishment after he was found guilty of desecrating sacred scriptures.
Police presented Zulfiqar during today's hearing of the case which was presided by Additional District and Sessions judge Shazib Saeed.
The court heard statements from witnesses and lawyers' claims and found the prisoner guilty of disrespecting sacred scriptures.
The court charged Zulfiqar with blasphemy under section 295(b) and awarded 25 years rigorous imprisonment to the convicted prisoner.
The court also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 on Zulfiqar and ordered to seize all his movable and immovable assets.
Case 310/2006 had been registered against him by Race Course station police in 2006.
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May 05, 2015 12:46pm
Blasphemy law needs to be implemented according to the teachings of Islam. If it's against teaching of Islam then it should be removed. But Mullah will never think in the same way because they don't care about teaching of Islam all they want is popularity and power.
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May 05, 2015 01:59pm
Absurd !
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May 05, 2015 02:52pm
what sacred scriptures?
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May 05, 2015 03:04pm
Highly dubious reporting! What was his crime that deserved 25 years in prison? Why not specify it for warning to others?
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May 05, 2015 03:13pm
26 years jail for dissrespecting a book!? What society we live in??
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May 05, 2015 03:31pm
Terrible, terrible, terrible. Without total freedom of thought and speech, the country can never wholly extricate itself of extremism and terrorism. Blasphemy laws are a sure recipe for terrorism.
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May 05, 2015 03:51pm
TRUE scripture is not on a piece of paper and it never came down on a piece of paper. Its inside the heart , according to the capacity of the individual.
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May 05, 2015 04:01pm
How can a normal human desecrate sacred scriptures?
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May 05, 2015 04:19pm
So called sacred scriptures of all religions are nothing but collection of vague thoughts of some people which are more than thousands of years old. They don't stand the scrutiny of modern knowledge based on science and technology. Best sacred scripture for any society should be the equitable rule of law, the constitution based on equality and secularism and books for school children teaching love and affection to all humans with hatred towards none.
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May 05, 2015 04:56pm
these blasphemy cases are becoming more and more ridiculous, time to scrap this law
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May 05, 2015 05:34pm
@ Kailash & @ KIT PAL
I fully agree. How a man can de-sacred the 'sacred scriptures' of any religion ? He must be having some divine power. People will be 'SCARED' to even touch the 'SACRED' scriptures.
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May 05, 2015 06:56pm
and link this to the article questioning secularism.
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May 05, 2015 09:58pm
This case is nine years old and so this man must have been in jail for that long. So does he get the benefit of the time already served leaving him to serve 16 more years less the time off for good behavior?
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May 05, 2015 10:37pm
Unfortunately our world is split in extremes. At one hand are nations jubilating the insults on the holy prophet PBUH and on the other are these forces sending people behind bars for decades for desecrating the holy scripts. How about educating this person for five years?
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May 06, 2015 03:50am
Was he guilty of desecrating or blasphemy?
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May 06, 2015 03:59am
@Kit pal Excellent and to the point!
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