Female school principal sentenced to death for blasphemy in Pak

The crime of denying that Muhammad is the last prophet of Islam

Lahore: Agni District and Masons Court has sentenced a school principal to death for allegedly defaming the Prophet Mohammad. The court on Monday sentenced Salma Tanveer, a principal of a private school in Nishtar Colony, to death and fined her Rs 5,000.

Additional District and Sessions Judge Mansoor Ahmed said in his judgment that Salma Tanvir had replaced the Prophet Muhammad by denying that he was the last Prophet of Islam.

In this way he has committed the crime of blasphemy. Lahore police filed a defamation suit against Tanvir in 2013 based on a complaint by a local cleric. He was accused of denying the prophethood of the Prophet Muhammad and claiming to be a prophet of Islam.

Salma Tanveer's lawyer Mohammad Ramzan asked the court to consider the fact that her client Salma Tanveer was mentally unstable. One of the plaintiffs, in a report submitted to the court by the medical board of the Punjab Institute of Mental Health, said that Salma Tanveer could be mentally disturbed.