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Now, Pak police officer axes prisoner to death over alleged blasphemy

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ANI Karachi

A Pakistani police officer killed a prisoner with an axe on Wednesday in the city of Gujarat alleging that he had committed blasphemy.

According to Dawn, Jhang Syed Tufail Haider was arrested a day before he was skilled, for wounding two people in Gujarat.

Police authorities said that the 45-year-old Tufail came to Madina Syedan in Gujarat three days ago to attend a majlis.

Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Faraz Naveed struck Tufail on the neck with an axe which resulted in his immediate death after a heated argument during interrogation.

Police have arrested ASI Faraz Naveed and taken the axe into custody and the body of the slain man has been sent for a postmortem to a local hospital.

 

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First Published: Nov 07 2014 | 10:40 AM IST

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