IGP records fresh statement of Rimsha Masih accused of blasphemy

In what appeared to be a latest development, Inspector General of Police Islamabad Bani Amin recorded fresh statement of Rimsha Masih, who is accused of blasphemy.

A report claimed the top police officer remained with the minor girl, who is believed to be 14-years-old, for more than an hour and recorded her statement in connection with the blasphemy charges.

In recent statement, the minor rejected all of the charges leveled against her, saying that she was at home and boiling tea when she saw a plastic bag hanging in the courtyard of her house.

She put the papers into the stove, which is common practice in the locality. People use twigs and paper to burn in the stove to cook food where there is no gas.

“I along with my little sister aged between 4 and 5 and a friend from her neighborhood walked out of her home and upturned the stove in order to clean it”, the report added.

According to the report, the girl said in her statement that the son of the owner of the home started shouting on seeing them throwing some burnt papers.

On hearing her reply, the boy started shouting which caught attention of the people in the surrounding areas who gathered there.

“On seeing a large number of people gathered outside, the girl went inside her home and locked herself in the bathroom”, she added.

According to her statement, she was unaware who had brought the plastic bag inside her house and what was in it.

Earlier, complainant of the case Hammad Malik had claimed that the pages of the Holy Quran were lying in the plastic bag.

Besides, the Christian girl, Mohammad Khalid Jadoon, Imam of Mehar Jaffar mosque is also in jail, since Sunday. He will be produced before the court of magistrate on September 16.

The Imam Masjid was arrested by police on Sunday for allegedly desecrating the Holy Quran, after the prayer caller of his mosque, Hafiz Mohammad Zubair, testified before a magistrate that he saw him putting two pages of the Holy Quran into one of the two plastic bags seized from the girl to strengthen charges against her.

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