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Peshawar resident gets life sentence for burning Holy Quran

Report in Dawn, Sept 17th, 2023PESHAWAR: A court has sentenced a man here to life imprisonment after convicting him of desecrating the Holy Quran in Khazana area around five years ago. Additional district and sessions judge Mohammad Sher Ali Khan ruled that the prosecution had proved the charge of Quran burning against the accused “without any shadow of doubt.” He extended the benefit of Section 382-B of the Code of Criminal Procedure to the convict…