Islamabad, Sept 23: A 25-year-old man from Chichawatni city in Sahiwal district under Pakistan’s Punjab province has been charged with blasphemy by the police for his social media posts, media reports said on Monday.
A case was registered against the man on the complaint of Shamsul Hasan, an assistant sub-inspector at Saddar Police Station, Chichawatni, on Saturday night, the Dawn reported.
The man was an employee of the Senate in Islamabad but was removed from the job recently.
According to the FIR registered under Section 295(C) of the PPC and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, the suspect was accused of uploading hateful material against the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in four separate posts, the reports said.
(UNI)
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