An area courtroom in Pakistan’s Bahawalpur sentenced a 22-year-old Christian man to dying and imposed a nice of ₹20,000 for allegedly sharing blasphemous content material via WhatsApp.

Noman Masih was accused of carrying blasphemous photographs in his cell phone, reported Pakistan’s The Nation. The First Information Report (FIR) was registered towards him below Section 295-C, which has a compulsory dying sentence.

Masih was arrested 4 years in the past by police on a criticism that he had shared blasphemous materials on a messaging app.

“The prosecutors presented the forensic record of Maih’s cellphone which proved that he shared the blasphemous content through WhatsApp. Besides some witnesses were also presented in the court,” stated a courtroom official, reported information company PTI.

Pakistan’s minority rights activist Joseph Jansen claimed {that a} honest investigation was not carried out within the case, which led to the judgement of capital punishment. While expressing concern over the event, Jansen stated it was disturbing and painful {that a} younger Christian man was sentenced to dying.

“The complainants and witnesses involved in levelling false allegations against the accused often enjoy impunity,” he added.

False accusations of blasphemy towards non secular minorities are sometimes made to settle private vendettas, property disputes, non secular prejudice, or enterprise rivalries, as seen in numerous circumstances, together with Mussarat Bibi’s case, he alleged.

Meanwhile, human rights activist Ilyas Samuel hoped the High Court would put aside the dying sentence awarded by the extra classes choose and drop all expenses towards Noman.