Indictment: Qandeel’s hermit charged with murder
MULTAN: A Multan justice has rigourously charged Qandeel Baloch’s brother, his cousin and a cab motorist with murdering a amicable media star in July. The suspects have pleaded not guilty to a charges.
On Tuesday, a Multan additional sessions decider indicted a 3 suspects and shelved a conference compartment Dec 8 for starting a conference with declare testimonies.
On Monday, a decider had systematic a military to benefaction a 3 group named Waseem Baloch, Haq Nawaz and Abdul Basit in court.
Qandeel’s hermit Waseem and cousin Nawaz have been charged with murder while dual other men, including a cab motorist Abdul, have been charged with swindling to murder and facilitation.
In a prior hearing, a other indicted Zafar Zain Khosa, Nawaz’s brother-in-law, was announced an absconder on his disaster to attend justice record notwithstanding a distribution of an detain aver opposite him. Zafar has reportedly fled to a Middle East after he was expelled on bail.
Abdul has already been postulated bail by a Lahore High Court’s Multan bench. He filed a bail defence after military arrested him for facilitating a purported killers.
In his bail plea, he contended a other indicted had requisitioned his cab in Dera Ghazi Khan to come to a residence of Qandeel behind in July. He stayed outward a residence during a whole part as clear by a footage of cameras commissioned outward a house. He claimed he had no thought what was function inside a house.
When arrested shortly after Qandeel’s murder, Waseem publicly confessed to slaying his 26-year-old sister for bringing ‘dishonour’ to a family with his confidant and risqué amicable media posts.
The model-cum-actor-cum-singer was found strangled in her residence during Karimabad, Multan on Jul 16.
Now that Waseem has been charged for murder, conference will start in one of Pakistan’s high-profile honour murdering cases.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 7th, 2016.
Article source: http://tribune.com.pk/story/1255683/indictment-qandeels-brother-charged-murder/