A former president of Pakistan Sikh Gurdwara Parbandakh Committee (PSGPC), who is facing a blasphemy charge for attacking a Gurdwara in Nankana Sahib, was on Tuesday granted bail by a Pakistani court in the case.
A division bench of the Lahore High Court headed by Justice Mazhar Iqbal Sidhu accepted the application of Mastan Singh and granted him bail.
The court dismissed the plea of the prosecution department that bail should not be granted to him till completion of the investigation.
Sitting judge behind this: counsel
Mr. Mastan Singh’s counsel advocate Anwar Zahid said sitting president of the PSGPC Sardar Sham Singh had got a ‘fake’ blasphemy case registered against his client and 25 others.
“Both Evacuee Trust Property Board head Siddiqul Farooq and Sham Singh joined hands with land mafia and illegally sold hundreds of canal land belonged to Gurdwara Janam Asthan, Nankana Sahib [the birth place of Baba Guru Nanak] to a housing scheme,” he said.
The Nankana police last month registered a blasphemy case against Mr. Mastan Singh and his 25 accomplices for allegedly attacking a Gurdwara in Nankana Sahib and chanting anti-state slogans.
They were protesting after being denied permission to take out a rally in Nankana Sahib, some 80 kilometres from Lahore.
