After taking necessary action and keeping the sensitivity of the issue in mind, the police sent the couple to Gojra Jail.

Earlier, Rana Mohammad Fiaz (complainant) informed the police that he had received a blasphemous text message from a private cell number. After the investigation, police found the phone’s SIM card data and once having the details, arrested the couple.

Gojra City is known to be a very sensitive area in such cases. Earlier in 2009, radical Muslims set the Christian colony there ablaze and eight family members were burned alive. The fire was started from the Korian village district. Toba Tek Singh and so far hundreds of houses were turned to ashes there. Much family had left their houses and shifted to other areas of the country.

Sajjad Masih was sent to jail for life imprisonment in the same sort of text massage case. The city police of Gojra, in association with some fundamental Muslims, baited the Christian boy. The case was sent to the court of Main Shahzad Raza, Additional Sessions Judge Gojra, for trial.

The prosecution had failed to prove the case against Sajjad Masih. Even then Main Shahzad Raza, Judge of the Court, announced his judgment on July 13, 2013 and sentenced him to life imprisonment.

The Gojra area is known as a safe haven for the banned militant organization, Lashkar e Jhangvi. It was reported earlier that the local government is backing up this organization. And the case of Shafaqat Masih and his wife Shagufta Bibi is the continuation of the tragedy in Gojra.

We have not been able to understand the situation with the Pakistani courts; the text message/SMS is taken as sole evidence against the accused in blasphemy cases, whereas DNA test reports, which are an authentic proof of rape, are not acceptable according to Islamic Sharia law.