توہین مذہب سے متعلقہ قوانین کا دستوری ارتقا؛مجموعہ تعزیرات ہندوپاک کا تجزیاتی مطالعہ

The constitutional evolution of blasphemy laws; an analytical study of Indo-Pak penal cods

Abstract

In the aftermath of the liquidation of the Mughal Empire, the English Government imposed the India penal code in 1860. The code lacked any clause about the crime of blasphemy directly or indirectly. Because of the inherent in the law some notorious accused were honourably acquitted in the different parts of the subcontinent. In 1927, act of amended article 295A entailed the act of blasphamy as the committal of crime. Even after the creation of Pakistan many clauses about the act of blasphamy were incorporated in the Pakistan penal code. The essay that fallows is an attempt to analyse the process of Journey from Article no 295A to 295C in the historical prospective. The rulings pertaining to the issue at hand shall also be referred from now and then.