The Pakistani Supreme Court has ordered the arrest of two Muslim clerics that they say incited a mob to kill two Christians last month after they made false accusations of the couple desecrating the Koran.

In addition to the clerics, five police officials who failed to take action to protect the couple have also been arrested for their lack of action.

“Why they did not make an attempt to secure the couple as they could disperse the mob through aerial firing?” Chief Justice Nasirul Mulk asked. “It is because of the police’s negligence that the tragic incident occurred.”

In the incident last month, 28-year-old Shama Bibi and her husband Shahzah Masih, 32, were burnt in a kiln by a Muslim mob.  The mob had been informed at a mosque that the couple has been found guilty of blasphemy against Islam.

It turned out that the Bibi had burned items that her late father-in-law used to perform black magic and his family was so upset they told the clerics she had burned a Koran to get the Muslims to kill her.

The police report that over 100 people have been arrested on at least one charge connected to the unlawful killing of the couple.