LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Shazib Saeed on Tuesday awarded life imprisonment to a man on charges of blasphemy.

The judge awarded life imprisonment to Zulfiqar Ali over his statement in which he confessed to committing blasphemy by setting the Holy Quran ablaze.

Racecourse police had registered a case under Section 295/B of PPC against Zulfiqar on the complaint of Parks and Horticulture Authority employee Qaisar Mehmood.