{"id":30694,"date":"2017-11-13T17:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30694"},"modified":"2017-11-13T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T12:00:31","slug":"qandeel-baloch-case-mufti-qavi-sent-on-physical-remand-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=30694","title":{"rendered":"Qandeel Baloch case: Mufti Qavi sent on physical remand for a week"},"content":{"rendered":"

MULTAN Nov 13 (TNS):<\/strong> Mufti Abdul Qavi, who is under trial in the Qandeel Baloch murder case, was presented in the court of judicial magistrate today as his 13-day judicial remand completed.<\/p>\n

After both sides presented their arguments, the judge sent Qavi on physical remand for seven days. The next hearing of the case is on November 20.<\/p>\n

The police also submitted the charge-sheet against Qavi to the prosecutor today, following which the\u00a0challan\u00a0<\/em>will be submitted to the judge in case no changes are needed in it.<\/p>\n

Qavi has already spent around two weeks in police custody following which he was sent to jail on judicial remand.<\/p>\n

Qavi was also taken through a polygraph test at Punjab Forensic Science Authority (PFSA) in Lahore earlier, which went on for over five hours. However, PFSA officials said the accused was not cooperative during the lie-detection test.<\/p>\n

Sources said Qavi also pleaded PSFA officials not to make him take the test as he recently underwent an angiography.<\/p>\n

On October 18, Judicial Magistrate Mohammad Pervez issued non-bailable warrants for Qavi after investigation officer Noor Akbar requested the court to do so on the grounds that the cleric is not cooperating with the police.<\/p>\n

The cleric was later arrested after reportedly attempting to escape.<\/p>\n

After being arrested, Qavi complained of chest pain and was admitted to a hospital. He also underwent angiography in the following days and was discharged later.<\/p>\n

Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Sardar Yousaf suspended Qavi\u2019s membership of Ruet-e-Hilal Committee after Qandeel released pictures of herself with the cleric in a hotel room weeks before her murder in July 2016, wearing his hat and pouting.<\/p>\n

She had accused him of inappropriate behaviour.<\/p>\n

“I thought I would expose him as he is in reality,” she told\u00a0AFP\u00a0<\/em>at the time. “He is a different person alone and different when he has his followers around him.”<\/p>\n

She had faced frequent abuse and death threats.<\/p>\n

Baloch, who shot to fame for her provocative selfies that polarised Pakistan, was allegedly strangled on July 16, 2016 by her brother Waseem.<\/p>\n

In his ‘confession’, Waseem claimed she had brought shame on the family and owned up to his crime in a press conference after his arrest the same day. Waseem, his cousin Haq\u00a0Nawaz and Abdul Basit were indicted in December 2016 and pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n

Prior to her death, Baloch, whose real name was Fauzia Azeem, spoke of worries about her safety and had appealed to the Interior Ministry to provide her with security.<\/p>\n

In Facebook posts, Baloch, 26, spoke of trying to change “the typical orthodox mindset” of people in Pakistan.<\/p>\n

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MULTAN Nov 13 (TNS): Mufti Abdul Qavi, who is under trial in the Qandeel Baloch murder case, was presented in the court of judicial magistrate today as his 13-day judicial remand completed. After both sides presented their arguments, the judge sent Qavi on physical remand for seven days. The next hearing of the case is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[238,589],"class_list":["post-30694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-multan","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30695,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30694\/revisions\/30695"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}