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Pakistan's unsafe minorities: 66 booked for torturing Christians

| @indiablooms | May 20, 2021, at 03:05 am

Islamabad: Police in Pakistan's Saddar region recently registered a case against 66 people, 20 of them unidentified, for allegedly torturing four members of a Christian community over a ‘trifle’ issue, media reports said.

The case was registered on the complaint of Mangta Masih under sections 452, 354, 427, 337L2, 148 and 149 of the PPC, reports Dawn News.

As per the first information report, the complainant said on May 14, he along with Imran, Emanual and Shahroz Masih was cleaning the Church main gate in the village street when motorcyclist Khalil came there, allegedly started abusing and asked them to stop spreading dust, the newspaper reported.

The complainant said Khalil, Imran, Munir, Jeeja, Nadeem and Hamza armed with weapons and rods allegedly attacked them which left them injured.

Mangta told Dawn News on May 16 as many as 66 people entered his house and allegedly tortured his sister-in-law (brother’s wife) and pelted the house with bricks.
 

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