Dawn: ISLAMABAD: The cleric who accused Rimsha Masih of committing blasphemy and was arrested for allegedly framing evidence, was released on Friday, a day after he was granted bail by a court, his lawyer said.
Hafiz Mohammed Khalid Chishti, the imam of the mosque in Rimsha’s area, who first provided police the burned papers as evidence against her, was detained on September 1 for desecrating the Quran himself and tampering with evidence.
“My client has been released and he came out of Adiyala jail today,” his lawyer Wajid Ali Gilani told AFP.
Chishti was granted bail on Thursday October 11, 2012, after a surety and a bond of Rs200,000 was submitted at the court in Islamabad, he said.
The cleric was arrested after his deputy Maulvi Zubair and two others told a magistrate Chishti added pages from the Quran to the burnt pages brought to him by a witness, investigators have said.
our so called independent, brave and neutral judiaciary is deadly afraid of the so called Jihadi Forces. Shair ki khaal main Bakrian. samjhay.
…. and that’s probably the last that we will hear about this so-called ‘justice’, I suppose.