ISLAMABAD: Prayer leader Khalid Jadoon, who was accused of adding burnt Holy Quran pages to make the case against Rimsha Masih stronger, was granted bail by a trial court on Thursday, Express News reported.
A sessions judge Islamabad granted the bail on submission of a surety bond worth Rs200,000.
Jadoon’s lawyer Wajid Gilani maintained that since all the witnesses against his client backtracked from their statements, police now have no evidence of his involvement in the case.
The cleric was accused of adding pages from the Holy Quran to ashes seized from 14-year-old Rimsha to implicate her and was sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand by a magistrate.
Three witnesses who had testified against the cleric had later backtracked from their statements saying that the police had “forced” them to testify.
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Rimsha wouldn't have been given a bail if this Mullah wasnt exposed!! Shame on you Pakistan!!
Here is the real blasphemy 14 year old girls attacked, insulted, persecuted and the violent mullahs go free...
This is not Islam its pre-Islamic jahiliyyat
@Kashif Dada:
Where is the evidence? Where is the medical report?
well don bravo, true Muslim @Conservative:
@Conservative: How has he suddenly become honourable? he may or may not have set up a poor mentally challenged girl, and threatened people testifying againts him or maybe he did none of that. In any case i am at a loss to see what he has done "honorable"
After his release Jadoon should be driven home in the Water Car.Then he should issue a Fatwa against the Laws of Thermodynamics and declare Dr.hoodbhoy a Kafir and Dr.A.Q.Khan as the inventor of the A-bomb.
And wha is the status of Rimsha's court case- will somebody enlighten me.
Disgusting country and nation.
And now this so-called mullah, a holy man -- he looks like a hard-core criminal in the picture above -- will have a free passage to take vengeance on the helpless, mentally-challenged child whom he tried to frame for blasphemy. Rimshah's story, the pathologically violent Talibans attacking Malala and the 14 year old Hindu girl forcibly converted into Islam for a Muslim marriage -- experts predict that this girl will be sold away for prostitution -- to an old man are examples of Pakistan's downward slide into mental retardness. A nation can NEVER prosper or be at peace if its female children are maltreated.
If culprits of Gojra massacre can go free then why not him? When was the last time any religious extremist was punished, Mumtaz Qadri and Lal Masjid goons included?
What a load of crap! Blaming a 14 year old for blasphemy. The cleric is no better than the people who shot Malala.
Rose petals. Please.
LOL...I feel bad for the "witnesses". They were probably threatened by the extremists with dire consequences. Now what will they say?
This cleric is a disgrace to humanity!
Witnessed backtracked for the safety of their and their family. Jadoon is a real blasphemer who added Quran pages to trash knowingly!!!! He was saved because all he did was to give a lesson to minorities.
I hope it will come out one day that witnesses were threatened to backtrack.
Witnessed backtracked for the safety of their and their family. Jadoon is a real blasphemer who added Quran pages to garbage knowingly!!!! He was saved because all he did was to give a lesson to minorities.
I hope it will come out one day that witnesses were threatened to backtrack.
HE should be beaten the crap out of. We live in a country where anything and everything that is associated with the U.S stirs the worst outcry ever. and if people cant seem to find any association of the U.S with an incident they just tend to either turn a blind eye towards it, or they just really dont care. While you go out an indulge in your Peace March's and "tsunamis" there are other matters that need attention to. Piece of Crap Mullahs like this guy need a good bashing too. THIS IS ALSO TERRORISM.
Well there you go. Mullahs put pressure on the witnesses and get their statements changed and this person goes scott free.
Welcome back to the club of illuminated
some one is lying- can anyone guess?
Justice is really blind
Pakistan Zindabad! Compare the surety bonds - Rimsha's and Jadoon's. The witnesses in one case backtrack and in the other the false witness has simply dissappeared