A prisoner in Abbottabad jail, on Saturday was attacked by fellow prisoners on being accused for damaging Holy Quran.

As per stated in the FIR the accused was jailed in 2019 on charges of blasphemy. It highlighted that the registered prisoner of City Police Station, was jailed due to the wrong conduct of damaging Holy Quran. 

According to the jail officials, the prisoner out of mental instability committed the 

Moreover, his inmate tried to strangle him whereas the police constable reaching at the right moment shifted the prisoner to the separate cell of the jail.

The business was halted and markets were shuttered-down, people of the city marched in the form of mob to the jail where inmate was attacked by the prisoners.

The law enforcement agencies were allocated at numerous spots of the city.