[DAWN] MARDAN/SWABI: The Mardan police on Friday nabbed... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
10 people on the charge of involvement in the lynching of a journalism student of the Abdul Wali Khan University over blasphemy charges.
Also in the day, Mashal Khan was laid to rest in native Zaida village of Swabi district.
A mob consisting of hundreds of university students had killed the student on campus on Thursday by lynching over the allegations of blasphemy triggering a nationwide uproar.
An official of Mardan’s Sheikh Maltun cop shoppe said two FIRs of the lynching incident had been registered.
He said 20 people, including four officials and 16 Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan students, were named in the FIRs, while 10 of them had been taken into custody.
The official said the suspects were identified through video footage of the incident, while the police had formed three teams to arrest the other suspects.
When contacted, Mardan DSP Ikhtiraz Khan confirmed the registration of FIRs, one about the lynching and other about the unidentified protesters interfering in the affairs of the state, blocking the university’s main routes and gates, and ransacking the campus.
The AWKU provost told Dawn that the university had formed a committee first to find out the ’real causes and motives’ behind the killing of the student and second to ascertain if two other students were involved in the blasphemy or not.