Karachi, Feb. 9 -- : A court in Pakistan has sentenced a Hindu college teacher to life imprisonment over blasphemy in Sindh province, local media has reported, adding that the session court also imposed a fine of Rs 50,000 on the convict.
Nautan Lal, who is a teacher at the Government Degree College, was arrested in 2019 and he has been in jail since as an under-trial prisoner.
His bail application was rejected twice during this period, Daily Pakistan reported on Tuesday.
On September 14, 2019, a video was shared on social media in which a student claimed that the owner of a local school had committed blasphemy.
It came as Pakistan reported a total of 1,415 cases of blasphemy in the country since 1947, a think tank, Centre for Research ...