Pakistan awards demise penalty to lady who claimed to be the brand new prophet

Pakistan’s periods court docket gave demise penalty to a Muslim lady over blasphemy costs beneath the part 295C of Pakistan Penal Code(PPC) in accordance with a DAWN report. FIR was registered by the Nishtar Colony police on Sept 2, 2013 in opposition to the lady after the grievance of a prayer chief named Qari Iftikhar Ahmad Raza of a neighborhood mosque.
The lady Salma Tanveer was a college principal at a personal faculty that she additionally owned. She was accused of giving out photocopies that allegedly contained messages denying the the finality of prophethood and claiming herself as a prophet.
Mian Muhammad Ramzan, the lady’s counsel claimed that she was of unsound thoughts on the time of the incident. Ramzan said {that a} psychological examination of the lady as ordered by the Justice of the Peace was pending and likewise argued that the photocopies of the alleged writings have been tampered with.
However the Additional District & Sessions Judge Mansoor Ahmad Qureshi stated, “It is proved beyond reasonable doubt that accused Salma Tanveer wrote and distributed the writings which are derogatory in respect of Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and she failed to prove that her case falls in exception provided by section 84 of PPC,”
Sadia Arif, the state prosecutor who was assisted by Advocate Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry, the complainant’s counsel submitted that the prosecution proved the case based mostly on oral and documentary proof. The prosecution claimed that the lady did not show that she was of unsound thoughts on the time of writing and distributing blasphemous materials.
The Judge noticed that the oral and materials proof proved that the lady herself wrote and shared these writings. But, since she was operating a college single handedly earlier than her arrest, the choose concluded that the lady was not legally insane.
The Judge stated, “The question, however, that arises for consideration is whether in law such abnormality can be treated as sufficient to exculpate the accused for the serious crime committed by her, even though it falls short of legal insanity,”
The verdict said that with none doubt the lady wrote and shared the derogatory writings and that she did not show that she was of unsound thoughts or had psychological sickness.
The verdict was “The convict Salma Tanveer is sentenced to death and fine Rs50,000 u/s 295-C PPC.”