Hindu teachers were sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of blasphemy in Pakistan

The teacher, identified as a nasutan Lal, was also fined Pakistan ₹ 50,000 by additional session Judge Murtaza Slowi in Ghotki at Sindh.

A Hindu teacher on Tuesday was sentenced to a lifetime by a local court on charges of blasphemy in the South Sindh Province of Pakistan.

The teacher, identified as a nasutan Lal, was also fined Pakistan ₹ 50,000 by additional session Judge Murtaza Slowi in Ghotki at Sindh.

The court took two years to punish Lal who had been in prison since 2019 as underage detainees. In the past two years, the bail request has been rejected twice.

LAL was arrested in September 2019 after a video became a viral on social media where a public intermediary students accused that Hindu teachers had contronytified the Prophet.

Students claim that Lal, who is the school owner and teaches physics in the Bachelor of the Regional Government, has visited the school that day and did that action.

Shortly after, a leader of the Jamaat-e-Ahle Sunnat and local scholars Mufti Abdul Karim Saeedi filed a complaint to the police against Lalfemy Act.

When news spread, a protest erupted in the city and hordes of violence attacked the Sacho Satram Dham temple and damaged his idols in Ghotki.

Sacho Satram Temple Caregivers, Jay Kumar, then said that around 50 masked men had attacked the temple but around 500 Muslims then came and kept the temple all night.

Pakistani blasphemy law was enacted by former Military Dictator General Ziaul Haq in the 1980s. No one was executed under this law but some people have been killed with suspicion just to indicate.

Human and civil human rights groups say that blasphemy law is often misused to resolve personal hostility and land disputes, especially in rural areas.

Hindu form the largest minority community in Pakistan.

According to official estimates, 75 Hindu Lakh lived in Pakistan. However, the community claims that more than 90 Hindu lakh lives in this country.

The majority of Pakistani Hindu residents settled in the Sindh Province where they shared culture, tradition and language with Muslim residents. They often complain of harassment by extremists.

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