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ISLAMABAD - A prayer leader who accused a young Christian girl of blasphemy and had been arrested for framing evidence was released on Friday, a day after he was granted bail by a court, his lawyer said.

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Hafiz Muhammad Khalid Jadoon Chishti, the imam of the mosque in Rimsha's area, who first gave police the burned papers as evidence against her, was detained on September 1 for desecrating the Holy Quran himself and tampering with evidence. "My client has been released and he came out of Adiyala jail today," his lawyer Wajid Ali Gilani told AFP.
Chishti was granted bail on Thursday on one surety and a bond of 200,000 rupees by the court in Islamabad, he said.
The cleric was arrested after his deputy Maulvi Zubair and two others told a magistrate Chishti added pages from the Quran to the burnt pages brought to him by a witness, investigators have said.