A college teacher has been sentenced to life imprisonment over blasphemy in Pakistan with a fine of Rs50, 000.
Nautan Lal, who is a teacher at the Government Degree College, was arrested in 2019 and he has been in jail since as an under-trial prisoner until this week when he was sentenced by a Sindh province court.
It all started in 2019 when a video went viral on social media in which a student accused the owner of the school of committing blasphemy.
According to Centre for Research and Security studies think tank, came 1,415 cases of blasphemy have been reported in Pakistan since 1947.