Police deny Mufti Qavi given ‘clean chit’

Qandeel Baloch’s murder

MULTAN: Mufti Abdul Qavi, who made headlines for appearing in a video with model Qandeel Baloch, on Monday said that he had been cleared in the murder case of the social media star after submitting answers to the questionnaire provided, a claim denied by police sources, reports GEO News.

Talking to the media at his residence in Multan, Qavi said that he had written down answers to the 14-point questionnaire a couple of days ago on the murder of Qandeel Baloch. He claimed that the police had handed him a ‘clean chit’ after he had sent in his answers to the questions.

Meanwhile, police sources have denied clearing Qavi of the charges in the murder case. They claimed that the investigation against the suspects including Qavi was underway.According to the police, brother of the model Waseem and cousin Haq Nawaz could be involved in the murder following the results of the polygraph tests.

Qavi on Sunday denied any relation with Abdul Basit, a suspect in the murder case who reports suggested to be a cousin of the mufti. On July 15, Basit had allegedly driven Waseem and Haq Nawaz to Multan from Baloch’s ancestral village Shah Saddar Din in Dera Ghazi Khan, around 130 kilometres away. Basit is reportedly a resident of the village.

The cleric said that he had not been contacted by any of Qandeel’s heirs after her murder and that he does not know details regarding her family.

Earlier, the mother of the slain model had claimed that Mufti Qavi had provoked her son Waseem into murdering her daughter. Waseem had admitted to strangling her to death for the “honour of the family.” However, sources in Punjab Forensic Science Agency on Saturday revealed that the model had been strangled to death by her cousin Haq Nawaz instead of by her brother.