Updated :
Monday October 1 , 2012 4:27:15 PM
Rimsha Masih case has once against changed dramatically as three witnesses, who had testified against prayer leader Khalid Jadoon for leveling blasphemy allegations against Christian girl Rimsha Masih, pulled back from their earlier statements, ARY News reported Monday.
The witnesses, including the masjid's muezzin Hafiz Zubair and Hafiz Awais and Khurram Shahzad, who endorsed Zubair’s statement, submitted a sworn statement before a District and Sessions court in Islamabad.
The witnesses in their statements maintained that prayer leader Akther Jadoon was innocnet. They added that Jadoon did not make any change in evidences.
They stated that police had tortured them and forced them give statement against Jadoon.
The cleric was accused of adding pages from the Quran to ashes seized from 14-year-old Rimsha to implicate her and was sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand by the judicial magistrate hearing the case on September 2, 2012.
Another nine-year-old witness Tehreem presented its sworn statement before the session court in which she stated that Jadoon was innocent.
Issuing notices to District Attorney and investigation officers, the court adjourned the case till October 3.
Rimsha Masih case has once against changed dramatically as three witnesses, who had testified against prayer leader Khalid Jadoon for leveling blasphemy allegations against Christian girl Rimsha Masih, pulled back from their earlier statements, ARY News reported Monday.
The witnesses, including the masjid's muezzin Hafiz Zubair and Hafiz Awais and Khurram Shahzad, who endorsed Zubair’s statement, submitted a sworn statement before a District and Sessions court in Islamabad.
The witnesses in their statements maintained that prayer leader Akther Jadoon was innocnet. They added that Jadoon did not make any change in evidences.
They stated that police had tortured them and forced them give statement against Jadoon.
The cleric was accused of adding pages from the Quran to ashes seized from 14-year-old Rimsha to implicate her and was sent to jail on a 14-day judicial remand by the judicial magistrate hearing the case on September 2, 2012.
Another nine-year-old witness Tehreem presented its sworn statement before the session court in which she stated that Jadoon was innocent.
Issuing notices to District Attorney and investigation officers, the court adjourned the case till October 3.
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