FAISALABAD: A 'blasphemy' case has been registered against fifty five Christians, thirty five of them appointive , and a Muslim on the allegation of desecrating many Muslim graves at Chak 206-GB.
It is learnt that the Christians planar the graves when being sophisticated by an area politician that the burial ground land had been assigned for his or her community.
The Muridwala police, on a criticism, registered a case (316/14) underneath sections 295-C, 506-B, 447, 148 and 147 of the Pakistan legal code.
The person aforesaid many folks came to the burial ground by tractors and dismantled four hundred to five hundred graves on Tues last. The vandals, he said, needed to occupy the land and therefore the space folks thwarted the bid.
He aforesaid the armed men hurled life threats at the villagers on resistance.
The suspects conjointly curtail variety of trees and took them away.
The Muridwala police office officer told Dawn it absolutely was AN recent burial ground that had no extra space and Muslims were exploitation another burial ground. He aforesaid eight of the suspects had been sent on judicial remand.
He aforesaid all appointive defendant had secured pre-arrest bails. The police had erroneously additional Section 295-C to the FIR that had currently been replaced with applicable Section 297 of the PPC, he added.
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