Madrassa student arrested on blasphemy charges in Pakistan

by PTI
Indian Money Control
October 5, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1738/madrassa-student-arrested-on-blasphemy-charges-in

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A madrassa student has been arrested on charges of blasphemy in Pakistan's Punjab province for allegedly burning pages of the Quran to save them from desecration, according to a media report today.

Junaid Ahmed, 20, a student of a seminary attached to Imdadia Mosque in Chakwal, was disposing of the pages by burning them on Monday when he was seen by some people, who severely tortured him and got a case of blasphemy registered against him.

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