PESHAWAR: Pakistani police say they have arrested a key suspect sought for inciting the lynching of a school scholar who used to be falsely accused of blasphemy in the nation's northwest.
District police leader Saeed Khan said on Friday that the person, identified as Arif Khan, were in hiding since April 2016, after a mob killed 23-year-old Mohammad Mashal Khan at his college campus in the the city of Mardan over unfounded rumors that he shared blasphemous content on social media.
The arrest got here after an appellate court suspended three-year prison phrases passed down closing month to 25 suspects over the student's slaying.
In February, an anti-terrorism court sentenced one man to demise and 5 others to life imprisonment. Those sentences are still unchanged.
Blasphemy in opposition to Islam is punishable by demise in Pakistan.
District police leader Saeed Khan said on Friday that the person, identified as Arif Khan, were in hiding since April 2016, after a mob killed 23-year-old Mohammad Mashal Khan at his college campus in the the city of Mardan over unfounded rumors that he shared blasphemous content on social media.
The arrest got here after an appellate court suspended three-year prison phrases passed down closing month to 25 suspects over the student's slaying.
In February, an anti-terrorism court sentenced one man to demise and 5 others to life imprisonment. Those sentences are still unchanged.
Blasphemy in opposition to Islam is punishable by demise in Pakistan.
Pakistan arrests suspect in student's slaying over blasphemy
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