Vikrant Shekhawat : Feb 13, 2022, 02:53 PM
A middle-aged mob lynched to death in a village in Pakistan on Saturday. It is alleged that the person allegedly insulted the Quran. The accused was taken into custody by the police but the angry mob rescued him from the police and put him to death.The incident is from Jungle Dera village in Khanewal district of Punjab province. It is being told that hundreds of people had gathered after the Maghrib Namaz. People say that a person tore a few pages of the Quran at the same time and set it on fire. After which the angry mob hung the accused from a tree and hit him with bricks till he died. According to the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, the person tried to explain his innocence but the crowd did not listen to him.According to eyewitnesses, a police team reached the village before stone-pelting and caught the criminal, but the mob freed him from the custody of the SHO. Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar has asked IGP Rao Sardar Ali Khan to submit a report on this matter.Similar incident happened in Sialkot tooA similar incident took place in Sialkot last December. In which a Sri Lankan engineer was murdered by workers on blasphemy charges. According to the Center for Research and Security Studies, a think tank, Pakistan has registered a total of 1,415 cases of blasphemy in the country since 1947.So far 89 people have been killed in blasphemy in PakistanAccording to this report, from 1947 to 2021, a total of 18 women and 71 men were put to death for blasphemy. However, according to the think tank the actual number of cases is higher as not all cases are reported. The report said that over 70 per cent of the accused were reported from Punjab.