Karachi: A former PTI MPA form Khyber Paktunkhwa has sought politicalasylum in India a year after being acquitted of murder charges.
“I was put behind bars for two years over alleged murder charges,” he toldIndian reporters.
Local media said he has moved to Ludhiana along with his family andrequested Indian prime minister to grant him political asylum.
In April last year an Anti-Terrorism Court in Buner district acquittedPakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)’s minority Member Provincial Assembly BaldevKumar in the murder case of lawmaker Soran Singh by giving him the benefitof doubt.
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He was arrested in the murder case of PTI leader Soran Singh, who waskilled on April 22, 2016 in Buner district.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) notified Baldev Kumar as MPA ashis name was on top of the list of candidates submitted by the PTI for thereserved seats for minorities following Soran Singh’s killing.