Police have arrested 23 persons and shifted them to some undisclosed location for interrogation over the charges of set a person on fire and torching a police station over the blasphemy accusations, just days after the gruesome murder shocked entire Pakistan.
The police say raids are being conducted to arrest the other accused involved in the incident which occurred in Madyan – a picturesque town and tehsil headquarter in Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
It is located 50 kilometres north of Mingora – the main city of Swat, which third largest in the province.
The local police have registered two FIRs in connection with the episode: one covers those who attacked the Madyan Police Station and murdered the person who is nominated in the second one over the blasphemy charges