Blasphemy laws in the South Asian Sub-continent are nothing new. While there is no concept of Blasphemy in Hinduism, those in practice during the Moghul Era were repealed by British colonial rule to allow Christian missionaries to proselytize. However in 1860 the Commission chaired by Lord Macaulay made the law again part of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) as Section 295, which gave protection to worship places, scriptures and personages of all religions of India. Two Sections 295 (A) and (B) were inserted in 1927, these prescribed punishment for outraging the religious feelings of any class or religious group with deliberate and malicious intentions.
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