MANSEHRA: An Abbottabad anti-terrorism court released a Chinese blasphemer on bail.
Judge Sajjad Ahmad Jan released the foreigner working on the Dasu hydroelectric project in Kohistan district.
The ATC judge ordered the Chinese worker released from police custody. He also ordered to move him to a secret location for Rs200,000 in surety bonds in a local bank.
Atif Ali Jadoon, Mohammad Arif Masud, and the deputy public prosecutor represented the suspect in court. They claimed innocence.
Security prevented the Chinese national from appearing before the judge.
The JIT presented the accusers’ and Chinese man’s records in court.
Kamila Station House Officer Naseerudden, the main complainant, arrived in court with appropriate records.
The judge ordered that workmen Gulistan, Shafi. Qadir, and translator Yasir filed the case’s first information report (FIR) two days after the event on April 15.
While, They told the JIT the hearsay story without supporting evidence.
Moreover, In his order, the judge stated that the translator (Yasir) was 35/40 feet away from a Chinese guy who was the head of heavy transports at the Dasu Dam Project. Labourer Gulistan assumed that the latter made the sacrilegious words.
Order
“Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code [PPC] says whoever by words, either spoken or written or by visible representation or by any imputation or innuendo or insinuation directly or indirectly defiles the sacred name of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) shall be punished with death or imprisonment for life and shall also be liable to be fined that in light of the available record,” the judge said in the order.
“The case of accused petitioner not comes within the ambit of the reasonable ground; that the accused petitioner is a foreigner and came here for his services at the Dasu Dam Project in Kohistan that a procession by the people of locality (Upper Kohistan) the result of misunderstanding as a result of which whereof the local police station in Kohistan concocted this false case against Chinese national while according to available record, no such offence was
The FIR filed at Kamila Police Station in Upper Kohistan under Sections 295-C of the PPC and 6/7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Moreover, Maulana Waliullah Tohidi, a member of the Ulema Jirga formed by local clerics after the incident to oversee the Chinese national blasphemy case. Said the release of the Chinese national was a judicial matter. As well as they accepted it wholeheartedly. He said the translator Yasir who levelled false accusations against the latter should taken to justic. Under the relevant sections of the law as he instigated local Kohistanis to come onto streets.
“We (Kohistanis) are patriotic Pakistani. As well as we would never allow anybody to sabotage the Dasu Hydropower Project at any cost,” he stated.
JIT sources told that the Chinese blasphemer would deported after the case.
