An additional district and sessions court of Peshawar has awarded death sentence and Rs0.1 million fine to a man who claimed apostasyMuhammad Tahir Aurangzeb awarded the punishment to Bashir Mastan under Section 295-C/298. According to the prosecution, Mastan had made the claim in the jurisdiction of Inqilab police station of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's (K-P) provincial metropolis. The fake apostle was arrested on the said charges on September 7, 2020 and was subsequently tried for the same. In late September, a district and sessions court in Lahore awarded death sentence to a female principal of a school for claiming prophethood. The area residents had lodged an FIR against the accused after which local police arrested the school principal.

Source: The Express Tribune December 23, 2021 20:22 UTC