The Kano State High Court (Appeal Division) has on Monday adjourned till November 26th, 2020 for the hearing of the appeal challenging the Upper Shariah court judgment which sentenced a 30-year-old man, Sharrif Yahaya, to death by hanging and another 17 year-old Umar Farouq sentenced to 10 years imprisonment for blasphemy against Prophet Muhammad and making a derogatory statement against Almighty Allah respectively.
Yahaya and Farouq through one of their lawyers, Kola Alanipini, had filed a suit before the Kano State High Court to appeal the judgment of the Shariah court sitting in Hausawa Filin Hockey in Kano State.
When the case came up for hearing on Monday, the appellants were absent but sent in their messages through a representative, Zubairu Usman, seeking an adjournment on the premises that they were served on short notice and could not make it down due to the civil unrest in Lagos State.
The penal presided over by the Chief Judge, Justice Nuraddeen Sagir, however, granted their requests and adjourned the case until November 26, 2020, to enable the respondents to serve the appellant’s notice in good time and appear before the court.
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