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The complainants of the case against Samuel Masih, who was accused of blasphemy under Section 295 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), said they did not want him charged with blasphemy because he didnât commit it. Samuel was arrested on their complaint and attacked by a police constable on May 22 with a brick cutter while he was recuperating from a tuberculosis attack in Gulab Devi Hospital. He died last Friday in Lahore General Hospital of head injuries sustained in that attack. The 27-year-old Christian man was facing trial under Section 295, which carries a maximum sentence of two years. The constable, Faryad Ali, said he felt it his religious duty to kill Samuel.
| Slaughtering somebody's kinda like a sacrament in the Religion of Peas... |
The three complainants - Chaudhry Muhammad Yaqoob, chief librarian of Darul Islam Library at Lawrence Gardens, Qari Rifatullah, moazzin, and Muhammad Aslam, assistant librarian â in the case against Samuel registered on August 23 last year condemned his killing. They said they only wanted the police to tell him not to throw litter at the outside wall of their mosque. Mr Yaqoob, who has worked at the library for seven years, said Samuel had repeatedly thrown litter at the mosqueâs outside wall. âSome people saw him doing this on and off,â said Mr Rifatullah, who has worked at the mosque for nine years. âThe last time, before we lodged the complaint, he was seen littering at the time of Zohar prayers. We tried to catch him, but he ran away. He was healthy at that time and we couldnât catch him.â |