Man held over ‘blasphemous Facebook post’ in Toba Tek Singh

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TOBA TEK SINGH: Kamalia city police arrested a man on Sunday over an allegedly blasphemous post on his Facebook page.

According to the FIR registered under section 295-A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of a city police Sub Inspector (SI) Muhammad Amer, acting on the information about the post, he arrested the suspect in a raid.

He claimed that “blasphemous” material was also recovered from the suspect’s phone.

The police shifted the suspect to an unknown place.

Published in Dawn, March 31st, 2025

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