India, Nov. 2 -- A blind Christian man has been arrested and charged with blasphemy after a Muslim person accused him of insulting the Prophet, media reports said.

The Christian person was identified as 49-year-old Nadeem Masih.

Martha Yousaf, the nearly 80-year-old mother of Nadeem Masih, told Morning Star News that Waqas Mazhar and other Muslims often harassed her son, sometimes extorting money from him and other times throwing water on him or calling him names.

Mazhar works in the Model Town Park in Lahore as a parking contractor and the Christian man earned money from the same venue by providing a weighing scale for petty merchants.

"Sometimes kindhearted visitors would also give him more money due to his disability, but the park'...