Islamabad: A court docket right here in Pakistan on Thursday sentenced a Christian girl to loss of life in a blasphemy case.
A case was filed below Blasphemy legal guidelines in opposition to Shaughta Karan, accused of sharing derogatory materials concerning the Prophet of Islam in a WhatsApp group in September 2020.
Decide Afzal Majuka of the Particular Court docket in Islamabad after the trial discovered her responsible below Part 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which carries a loss of life sentence.
The court docket additionally imposed a advantageous of Rs 300,000 on Karan.
Other than this, the court docket additionally sentenced her to seven years imprisonment and imposed a advantageous of Rs 100,000 below Part 11 of the Pakistan Digital Crime Act (PECA).
The decide in a quick order mentioned the convict has the correct to file an attraction in a excessive court docket inside 30 days of the choice.
Decide Majuka added the execution of the sentence wouldn’t happen till the excessive court docket authorised the choice.
Karan is the second Christian girl sentenced to loss of life in a case of insulting the Prophet and the faith of Islam.
Earlier, Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to loss of life for blasphemy, was stored in jail for eight years, however a bench headed by Asif Saeed Khosa, the previous Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Court docket, acquitted her in October 2018.
After her acquittal, Bibi moved to Canada together with her household.
Blasphemy legal guidelines had been enacted within the 1980s by former navy ruler Ziaul Haq. These charged with blasphemy are sometimes focused by the extremists.
In accordance with the suppose tank Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), practically 3,000 individuals have been accused of blasphemy since 1987.
At the very least seven individuals accused of blasphemy have been killed by people or mobs throughout Pakistan since January this yr, the CSJ mentioned.
A complete of 94 individuals accused of blasphemy have been killed in mob assaults between 1994 and 2023.
