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A courtroom in Pakistan on Thursday (September 19, 2024) sentenced a Christian lady to demise in a blasphemy case.

A case was filed underneath Blasphemy legal guidelines towards Shaughta Karan, accused of sharing derogatory materials in regards to the Prophet of Islam in a WhatsApp group in September 2020.

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Decide Afzal Majuka of the Particular Courtroom in Islamabad after the trial discovered her responsible underneath Part 295 C of the Pakistan Penal Code, which carries a demise sentence.

The courtroom additionally imposed a nice of Rs. 3,00,000 on Karan.

Aside from this, the courtroom additionally sentenced her to seven years imprisonment and imposed a nice of Rs. 1,00,000 underneath Part 11 of the Pakistan Digital Crime Act (PECA).

The decide in a short order mentioned the convict has the proper to file an enchantment in a excessive courtroom inside 30 days of the choice.

Decide Majuka added the execution of the sentence wouldn’t happen till the excessive courtroom authorized the choice.

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Karan is the second Christian lady sentenced to demise in a case of insulting the Prophet and the faith of Islam.

Earlier, Asia Bibi, who was sentenced to demise for blasphemy, was saved in jail for eight years, however a bench headed by Asif Saeed Khosa, the previous Chief Justice of Pakistan Supreme Courtroom, acquitted her in October 2018.

After her acquittal, Bibi moved to Canada together with her household.

Blasphemy legal guidelines had been enacted within the Nineteen Eighties by former navy ruler Ziaul Haq. These charged with blasphemy are sometimes focused by the extremists.

In line with the suppose tank Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), practically 3,000 individuals have been accused of blasphemy since 1987.

No less than seven individuals accused of blasphemy have been killed by people or mobs throughout Pakistan since January this yr, the CSJ mentioned.

A complete of 94 folks accused of blasphemy have been killed in mob assaults between 1994 and 2023.