Barkhan incident: Bail granted to Balochistan minister Abdul Rehman Khetran.

QUETTA -- A sessions court in Quetta on Friday approved the bail of Balochistan Minister for Construction and Communications Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran - one of the suspects in the case registered for the gruesome murder of three people whose bullet-riddled bodies were found in a well in the Barkhan district.

The court approved the bail of the provincial minister against surety bonds of Rs1 million.

Last month, the court had granted police's crime branch a 10-day physical remand of the Balochistan minister.

Khetran was brought to the court amid tight security. He made a victory sign before being produced before the court. The suspect was produced before the court of Judicial Magistrate Sameena Nasreen.

The gruesome Barkhan incident took place days after a video of a woman with the Holy Quran in her hands was released on social media. In the video, the woman had claimed that she and her children were detained by Khetran. She pleaded with the people to get her and her children freed.

Initially, Khan Muhammad Marri, a resident...