Couple’s lynching: Investigation file sought
The couple had been accused of desecrating the Holy Quran
LAHORE:
A Lahore High Court division bench on Wednesday gave the police a week to submit investigation record in the Kot Radha Kishan Christian couple’s lynching case. The bench issued the directive while hearing a bail application filed by Malik Yousaf Gujjar, owner of the kiln where the couple was killed. Yousaf’s counsel submitted that he had been falsely implicated in the incident. He said his client was away from the kiln when the incident took place. He said that Yousaf had been under treatment for Hepatitis and added that treatment could not be continued in the jail. Therefore, he said, his client should be released on bail. The prosecution had stated that Sajjad Masih and his wife Shama Bibi were killed at the premises of the kiln where they were employed on November 4, 2014 by a mob of at least 400 people. The couple had been accused of desecrating the Holy Quran.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 11th, 2015.
A Lahore High Court division bench on Wednesday gave the police a week to submit investigation record in the Kot Radha Kishan Christian couple’s lynching case. The bench issued the directive while hearing a bail application filed by Malik Yousaf Gujjar, owner of the kiln where the couple was killed. Yousaf’s counsel submitted that he had been falsely implicated in the incident. He said his client was away from the kiln when the incident took place. He said that Yousaf had been under treatment for Hepatitis and added that treatment could not be continued in the jail. Therefore, he said, his client should be released on bail. The prosecution had stated that Sajjad Masih and his wife Shama Bibi were killed at the premises of the kiln where they were employed on November 4, 2014 by a mob of at least 400 people. The couple had been accused of desecrating the Holy Quran.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 11th, 2015.