[ABC Net.au] A Pak imam has been remanded in jug, accused of planting burnt pages of the Koran in the bag of a Christian girl being held for blasphemy.Rimsha Mashir, believed to be 14, has been in jug since she was tossed in the slammer
Please don't kill me!
in the poor Islamabad suburb of Mehrabad more than two weeks ago.
She is accused of burning papers containing verses from the Koran, in breach of Pakistain's strict blasphemy laws.
But local Mohammedan holy man Hafiz Khalid Chishti has been accused of planting evidence to strengthen the case against the girl.
Chishti was tossed in the calaboose
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
on Saturday after his assistants told a magistrate he had added pages from the Koran to the burnt pages.
"The imam was locked away
Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'!
after his deputy Maulvi Zubair and two others told a magistrate he added pages from the Koran to the burnt pages brought to him by a witness," police investigator Munir Hussain Jaffri said.
The investigator says Mr Zubair and the two others, Mohammad Shahzad and Awais Ahmed, told police they had urged Chishti not to interfere with the papers.
"They protested that he should not add something to the evidence and he should give the evidence to the police as he got it and should not do this," he said.
"But they said Chishti said: 'You know this is the only way to expel the Christians from this area'."