Another incident of sacrilege takes place in Punjab

August 16, 2016 17:15

An incident of alleged sacrilege of Holy Quran has taken place in a village in this district of Punjab within two months of a similar case being

reported from Malerkotla.

The incident took place yesterday at a mosque in village Mehlan Chowk of Suman, police said today.

Over 100 pages of holy book were found torn in the mosque premises, police said, adding these pages were later buried as per Muslim tradition.

Police have registered a case against unidentified persons and started investigations.

Earlier, the holy book was desecrated in Malerkotla town on June 24 and the accused arrested in that case included Delhi's AAP MLA Naresh Yadav. He is out of jail on bail now.

Sunam has sizeable Muslim population like Malerkotla.

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