Lagatar24 Desk
Islamabad, Aug 22: A top police officer announced on Monday that a Hindu sanitation worker had been detained in Pakistan after a string of rallies by an extreme group for allegedly burning pages from a holy book.
After staging protests on Sunday in front of a building housing Hindu families over the alleged blasphemy incident that occurred in Hyderabad city on Friday, the extremist group Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) arrested Ashok Kumar.
An unnamed Hindu community leader in Hyderabad claimed that the police had detained Kumar without conducting a thorough investigation into the incident.
“The Hindu families living in a building where the incident occurred are scared after the protests organised by the TLP and held outside their building on Sunday,” he said.
An Islamic studies book’s pages allegedly were set on fire on Friday, and the TLP organised protests throughout Hyderabad to call for the filing of a blasphemy prosecution and the arrest of those responsible.
A well-known Hindu leader named Ravi Dawani has urged the Sindh government to conduct an unbiased investigation into the situation.
After the TLP’s violent rallies caused the government to expel the French ambassador over the matter of blasphemous cartoons published in France, the group was designated a proscribed organisation in April of last year.
Imran Khan, a former prime minister of Pakistan, bowed to the demands of hardline Islamists to put an end to the violent anti-government movement by approving the removal of the extremist organisation from the list of prohibited organisations in November of last year.
The TLP was founded in 2015 and has protested over the years, usually in opposition to claims that the Prophet has been desecrated.
