ATC indicts 57 in Mashal Khan’s lynching; hearing to start on Wednesday
Journalism tyro Mashal Khan was shot and brutally lynched on campus on Apr 13. PHOTO: FACEBOOK
PESHAWAR: An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Haripur has indicted 57 people arrested for impasse in a murder of Mashal Khan, a Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan (AWKUM) tyro who was lynched in Apr over heresy allegations.
The incarcerated people were constructed before ATC decider Fazle Subhan in Haripur Prison for a conference on Tuesday. The decider refused to accept bail applications of 17 of a indicted and indicted 57 of accused persons. The trial is set to start on Wednesday.
Mashal, a proprietor of Swabi and a tyro during Journalism and Mass Communication dialect during AKWUM was shot passed and his physique foul in extended illumination by his associate students on campus on Apr 13 after being indicted of blasphemy.
JIT says Mashal’s murder was premeditated
On a day of a attack, a crony of a defunct tyro had told The Express Tribune that a host pounded him before sharpened him in a conduct and chest, and afterwards continued to stomp on his physique and strike it with sticks.
The following day, a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa supervision systematic a legal exploration into a lynching after harrowing videos of a host conflict were common widely on amicable media and triggered widespread defamation from polite society, politicians and rights activists opposite a board.
A corner review organisation after submitted a news final that blasphemy charges could not be valid opposite Mashal and that his murder was pre-planned by people who enclosed university employees as well.
The news also settled that a domestic celebration feared Mashal was going to unearth embezzlements in a university and a organisation annoyed a host to conflict him.
The video of a hideous assault done around mobile phone cameras showed Mashal’s disrobed physique – lonesome in blood – being dragged, initial in a corridor and afterwards on a highway of a campus. It also shows students aggressive a policemen who attempted to intervene.
Mashal murder case: K-P strengthens charge team
The FIR of a murder was purebred during a military hire of Mardan’s upscale Sheikh Maltoon community underneath sections 302, 148, 149, 297 and 427 of a Pakistan Penal Code along with Section 7 of a Anti-Terrorism Act.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan also voiced alarm over Mashal’s lynching and urged that effective stairs should be taken to move all those concerned to probity and to tackle a panic and fear among citizens, generally students and a academia, in a issue of a barbarous murder.
The K-P supervision on Monday constituted a organisation of comparison open prosecutors for a hearing of dozens of indicted in a case.
Article source: https://tribune.com.pk/story/1510718/atc-indicts-57-mashal-khans-lynching-trial-begin-wednesday/