TOBA TEK SINGH, April 12: District Coordination Officer Nawazish Ali and DPO Raja Munawwar Husain have assured a delegation of religious scholars that efforts will be made to arrest all the blasphemy accused.

A delegation, including Sunni Tehrik district convener Maulana Hameeduddin Rizvi, Jamiat Ahle Hadith district amir Mufti Muhammad Aslam, JUI district secretary-general Mian Abdul Basit and DBA former president Mian Shahid Iqbal, met the two officials and conveyed their concern over the city police’s failure to arrest the blasphemy accused.

They told the officers that some “secular NGOs and elements” were trying to get the case quashed by presenting false arguments.

A day earlier, religious scholars belonging to different schools of thought demanded that the government should place the names of the six blasphemy accused on the Exit Control List.

A case had been registered by the Toba Tek Singh city police against the blasphemy accused. Two of them have already been arrested.

At a meeting in Jamia Kareemia with Tanzeem-i-Ulema-i-Ahle Sunnah chief Sahibzada Faiz Rasool Siddiqui in the chair, a resolution was passed in which the arrest of the remaining accused was demanded.

On the Eid Miladun Nabi (peace be upon him), Bakhshi park’s resident Faisal Gulzar was returning from a procession when a Christian youth, Salamat Masih, stopped him and snatched from him a sticker pasted on his pocket which contained the picture of the Naalain Mubarik. He allegedly rubbed the sticker by his shoes.

The city police had registered a case against him and his five accomplices under sections 295-A and 295-C and the accused later stormed into Faisal’s house and tortured the members of his family in revenge.

The police have so far arrested Salamat Masih and Shehla Masih while the other four accused are at large.

HUNGER STRIKE: The district bar association continued hunger strike on Thursday in protest against the chief justice’s suspension.