A Christian househelp has accused her employer of beating her and confining her for a week after she tried to leave her job due to pregnancy in Sialkot, Punjab.
Asma Gulfam, a 28-year-old mother of 4 children, claimed that her employers with whom she was working for the last five years accused her of theft a few days after she had informed them that she would be leaving her job due to pregnancy, reported a media outlet.
She claimed that her employer Huda Adnan and her husband dragged her to a room where she was beaten up by them and four police officers. She claimed that the employers and police officers confined her illegally for eight days and repeatedly tortured her.
Gulfam has also accused the police of not registering First Information Report (FIR) over the incident against her employers, in fact, she claimed, that the police have registered a complaint against her for stealing.
Earlier, a 15-year-old Christian boy and his 18-year-old friend, also from the Christian community, were arrested in Lahore under the blasphemy law on a complaint filed by a police officer.
According to the complaint filed by police constable Zahid Sohail at the Race Course Police Station, 15-year-old Christian boy Simon Nadeem, and his friend 18-year-old Adil Babar allegedly insulted the Holy Prophet (PBUH). He claimed that he heard the boys “committing blasphemy” while playing when he was on his way to a mosque.
18-year-old Adil Babar’s father Babar Masih refuted the police constable’s claims, saying that the police officer had a quarrel with the boys in the afternoon, Voicepk reported.
Babar Masih said that in the evening the police carried out a raid and arrested the two boys on blasphemy charges, with constable Zahid Sohail as a complainant.
