Ludhiana: The murder case of Pastor Sultan Masih is still unsolved and to further aggravate the tension, an attack on a church has been reported in the Ladhowal area. Some unidentified miscreants vandalised the windowpane of a church in village Rasulpur of Ladhowal.

The Ladhowal police have registered a case under sections 295 (Injuring or defiling place of worship with intent to insult the religion of any class) and 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of IPC against the unidentified accused.

The case was registered following a complaint of Babu Karma Masih, priest of Saint Joseph Catholic Church. In his complaint he said that he had gone to village Majitha on August 6 after locking the church. When he returned on August 8, he found windowpane of the church broken. The investigating officer from police station Ladhowal, ASI Surinder Kumar, said that police have been scanning the CCTV footages installed in the area to identify the accused.

(Source: The Times of India)