Police forcing to take back statement on Asma murder case, says Safia Rani

Monitoring Desk

LONDON: The family of murdered student Asma Rani in Kohat, claimed that KP police is pressurizing to take back their words against police performance and stop questioning the police department in Asma murder case.

While talking to private news channel, Safia Rani, the sister of Asma Rani, alleged that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police is pressurizing her to retract statement about police.

Earlier, Safia Rani had said that the police did not provide adequate security to her sister despite knowing about the threats given by the relative of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s district president to her sister.

KP police failed to stop the prime accused Mujahid Afridi from felling abroad and adding that the law enforcement authority has not yet arrested him yet despite a week since the tragic murder, Safia Rani added.

Asma Rani, a third-year MBBS student at Abbottabad Medical College, was in her hometown Kohat on vacation when Mujahid Afridi allegedly opened fire on her on January 27 over refusal of a marriage proposal.

The accused, nephew of PTI district president Aftab Alam along with his brother, Sadiqullah Afridi, was waiting outside the girl’s residence and he allegedly shot Rani thrice, after she stepped out of a rickshaw along with her sister-in-law.