ISLAMABAD: The police arrested three people, including a cleric, on Saturday on charges of desecrating the Holy Quran. Passersby informed police that 17 copies of the Holy Quran had been dumped at a drain in Sector G-6/4. During probe, police found Qazi Abdul Islam, a cleric in the Qutab Shaheed Madrassa, responsible for the desecration. Police said that Islam admitted that he had asked his two students to dump the copies of the Quran in a well. However, the students threw the copies into the drain. The police have registered a case under Section 295-B.