KARACHI, June 30: Justice Sarmad Jalal Osmany of the Sindh High Court ordered on Friday quashment of a blasphemy case against the chief executive of a textile mills.
The case against M/s Yunus Textiles was instituted on the complaint of Advocate Qadir Khan Mandokhel, who alleged before the district and sessions judge of Malir that the mills had printed the names of the Almighty and the Holy Prophet on sheets supplied to certain western countries.
He requested that the mill’s chief executive, Mohammad Ali Tabba, be proceeded against for blasphemy under Section 295-C of the Pakistan Penal Code.
Mr Tabba moved a criminal miscellaneous application in the high court seeking quashment of the case.
His counsel, Raza Hashmi, submitted that no case under Section 295-C could be registered without a sanction granted by the federal government or the provincial government.
Since the case before the Malir sessions court had no such sanction, the proceedings were illegal.
He produced sample sheets in the court to assert that the allegation was false and that his client could not think of committing blasphemy. The application was accepted and the impugned case quashed.
BANKERS BOOKED: Dr Qamaruddin Bohra, special judge for offences in respect of banks, meanwhile, ordered registration of a case against the Allied Bank president, Executive vice-president and a Hyderabad branch manager under Section 409 of the Pakistan Penal Code.
The judge also issued bailable warrants in the sum of Rs 100,000 each and a personal bond in the like amount to ensure their presence in the court on July 18.
Complainant Islamuddin Khan, general manager of Fateh Textile Mills, alleged that the bank president had asked his subordinates to encash the cheques kept by the mills as trust with the bank.
He submitted through Advocate Raza Hashmi that the three bank officers were guilty of criminal breach of trust and should be proceeded against Section 409, PPC.
