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LAHORE: In yet another case of religious persecution of the minorities in Pakistan, a Hindu was beaten to death in the port city Karachi by dozens of his Muslim co-workers at a leather factory for uttering blasphemous remarks about Prophet Muhammad.The incident took place in a factory in Sector 15 of the Korangi Industrial Area, after a discussion about religion became heated between Jagdish Kumar and his Muslim co-workers. According to the Karachi police sources, Jagdish, a 25-year-old resident Mirpurkhas, was tortured to death on Tuesday over allegations that he spoke against the sanctity of the Prophet Muhammed. According to Farrukh Bashir, the police superintendent for the Korangi area, the angry mob at the leather factory kept beating Jagdish for almost half an hour and left him only after someone pointed out that he had died. However, they even tried to burn his body. The local police reached the place after they were called by someone in the factory. The police officer said that the atmosphere in and outside the factory was highly charged and it was a tough task for police to take the body out of the factory. To a question, he said the doctors who conducted autopsy of the deceased at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in Karachi, Jagdish Kumar seems to have been beaten to death as his dead body had multiple marks of torture and injuries caused by hard objects. He said no-one had been detained for questioning so far as any action could only be taken when a case is registered and a conclusion is reached on the basis of the autopsy report and investigations. He, however, admitted that Jagdish’s killing was a case of intentional murder, rather one of death in a brawl. However, Raju, the brother-in-law of the victim, has demanded of the Korangi police officials that the killing must be investigated and his co-workers should be taken into custody and interrogated, because no-one can even think of uttering blasphemous remarks against the Prophet Mohammad in a Muslim society. He has maintained that the murder had nothing to do with religion and it could have been the result of a personal feud. “Jagdish was a simple man who knew little about religion. He had come to Karachi to earn a living and not to indulge in debates over religion.â€However, in the Pakistani society, it is easy to kill someone from the minority community and then accuse him of having committed blasphemy. Blasphemy is punishable by death in Pakistan, although no one has ever been executed for it, while communal tensions often run high whenever accusations of blasphemy are made. The blasphemy law allows a person to register a case against anyone for blaspheming the Prophet Muhammad by word or deed.
