MANSEHRA: Religious scholars in Oghi tehsil here on Saturday urged residents not to subject the family of a suspected blasphemer to physical attacks or social boycott.

`As the family has nothing to do with the sacrilegious contents posted by the [suspected] blasphemer on social media, no one has the right to attack it, socially boycott it, or expel it from the area, prayer leader of the central mosque Maulana Hafiz Khan Usmani told a jirga in the Ghania village.

The police have already taken the accused into custody.

During the jirga, Mr Usmani said the religious scholars would pursue the blasphemy case in a court of law.He said nobody would cause any damage to the lives and property of the family of the suspected blasphemer.

Religious scholars Maulana Ahsanullah Qari, Mufti Izharullah Qadri, Mufti Rais, Qazi Anwarul Haq, Maulana Obaidullah Haidri, Maulana Ali Akbar and village council chairman Shahid Nawaz seconded the announcement.

A participant introduced himself as the father of the accused and announced that he and his family members didn`t support the alleged act of blasphemy.

Meanwhile, the Oghi police have claimed that the Federal Investigation Agency`s Cyber Crime Wing has traced two Facebook accounts on which the accused uploaded the sacrilegious content.

`Preliminary investigation bythe police and FIA has gotten hold of some important clues about the suspected blasphemer,` SHO of Oghi police station Waheed Murad told Dawn.

INJURED: Five people, including two women, were seriously injured as the two vehicles they travelled in collided head-on in the Kotkay area here on Saturday.

Rescue 1122 shifted the injured to a local health centre in ambulances, according to official Amir Khadam.

He told reporters that a passenger wagon collided with an oncoming taxicab on its way to Mansehra from Balakot.

The official said Rescue 1122 workers shifted the injured to the King Abdullah Teaching Hospital, but the doctors referred three of them to the Ayub Medical Complex Abbottabad due to critical condition.