“The couple along with their four children wanted to leave the kiln as Yousuf was not paying their remuneration. He demanded Rs 5,00,000 from them, if they wanted to quit.
“Two days ago, after an exchange of words Yousuf locked the couple along with their children in a room,” Emaneul said.
He further said that an announcement was made today from two mosques of Chak 59 that Shahzad Masih and his wife had committed blasphemy by burning the pages of Quran.
“A large number of Muslims led by area clerics reached the kiln and dragged the couple out of the room after breaking into it.
They first tortured them and then threw them in the kiln.
No one from the crowd listened to the couple, who were pleading that they were innocent as Yousuf had levelled false allegation of blasphemy against them to settle money dispute,” Emanuel said adding, “Thank God they did not burn the couple's children”.
He alleged that police from the nearby post had reached there on time but did not intervene seeing the charged mob.
Human Liberation Commission Pakistan Chairman Aslam Sahotra said he visited the district headquarters hospital Kasur and saw the remains of couple.
“It was all ashes and some bones of the couple which is left to bury,” he said.
