SC bench to hear Jaranwala rampage case today

Three-member bench led by Justice Ijazul Ahsan to hear petition filed by minority leader Samuel Pyare

ISLAMABAD:

The Supreme Court has fixed the Jaranwala rampage case for hearing on Friday (today).

A three-member bench led by Justice Ijazul Ahsan and comprising Justice Muneeb Akhtar and Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail will hear the case.

Minority leader Samuel Pyare had filed a miscellaneous application, urging the apex court to take notice of the incident.

On August 16, violent mobs attacked churches and homes of Christian residents in Jaranwala town of Faisalabad district after a Christian man was accused of blasphemy. Multiple churches were set on fire, which triggered strong condemnation from the country’s political and religious parties.

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Later, police claimed that the attacks were part of a conspiracy hatched by a jealous husband to bring harm to his wife’s alleged lover.

Jaranwala SP Bilal Silhari said P*, a Christian man, had discovered that his wife was cheating on him with one of his co-religionist Raja U*.

The SP said P first hired a contract killer, Allah Ditta, to eliminate his rival and gave him both money and a motorcycle.

However, when Ditta failed to kill U, he conceived a heinous plot together with his friends Dawood and Bobby to frame U in a blasphemy case, which carries a death sentence in the country.