: After a long legal battle where he was initially convicted and then acquitted by the High Court (which ruled that the law at the time did not prohibit insults to deceased religious figures), Rajpal was assassinated in 1929 by a young man named Ilm-ud-din. A Persistent Precedent
In May 1924, a small Urdu pamphlet titled Rangeela Rasool (The Colorful Prophet) was published anonymously in Lahore. Written by , a member of the Hindu reformist group Arya Samaj, the book was a satirical take on the marriages and domestic life of the Prophet Muhammad.