MANSEHRA: A former provincial minister, Ibrar Hussain, alias Iqbal, who was once booked within the homicide of a girl dancer, secured a transit bail from a court docket in Peshawar.

“My consumer Ibrar Hussain alias Iqbal has were given a transit bail and can seem ahead of the court docket involved in Mansehra on August 17,” Babar Khan Yusufzai Advocate informed newshounds right here on Monday.

The town police had booked Ibrar Hussain and 4 others, together with a girl, alleging that the previous killed the dancer, Kiran, as she had stopped him from groping her throughout the dance efficiency on the place of abode of a former tehsil councillor, Mohammad Jamshed at Thakara right here on August 12.

Yusufzai mentioned Ibrar Hussain seemed ahead of the court docket of Additional District and Sessions Judge Naveedullah pleading now not responsible to the fees/offences for which he was once booked below sections 302/201/202/2­03/148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code. Ibrar Hussain thru a social media video alleged that he was once booked on trumped-up fees.

“I solemnly claim that I’m blameless and didn’t kill the woman,” he mentioned whilst protecting the Holy Quran in his palms. According to the FIR, Iqbal Hussain, the principle accused, had allegedly killed the girl dancer and dumped her frame in a automotive parked close to her place of abode in Chiria Dee Takee (Noguazi) space. The police had arrested Mohammad Jamshed and a girl, who had taken Kiran to the dance birthday party.

The co-accused Raheel Tanoli, and Mian Amir have been but to be arrested. The slain dancer belonged to Azad Jammu and Kashmir and lived in a rented space in Mansehra town.