The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted a blasphemy accused who was sentenced to death by the trial court and the high court. Wajeehul Hassan was accused by a lawyer, Advocate Ismail Qureshi, in 1998 of writing blasphemous letters to him. According to the prosecution, the letters were sent to Qureshi after the acceptance of his request to the Federal Shariah Court to change the punishment for blasphemy from life imprisonment to death sentence. During the hearing, Justice Sajjad Shah observed that the prosecution has failed to prove that the letters were written by Hassan and dismissed the case. The Supreme Court last year acquitted Aasia Bibi – a Christian woman accused of blasphemy in 2010 and sentenced to death – and set aside an earlier judgment passed by a lower court. The then chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar had set aside the Lahore High Court (LHC) verdict and directed the authorities to release Aasia Bibi from prison.
SC frees blasphemy accused jailed for over two decades
The Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted a blasphemy accused who was sentenced to death by the trial court and the high court. Wajeehul Hassan was accused by a lawyer, Advocate Ismail Qureshi, in 1998 of writing blasphemous letters to him. According to the prosecution, the letters were sent to Qureshi after the acceptance of his […]
