KOHAT: Police claimed on Sunday that Shahzeb, an accomplice of prime accused Mujahid Afridi in Asma Rani murder case, has confessed to helping Mujahid flee the country.

Shahzeb, a resident of KDA area of the city, was arrested on Saturday, after which he was remanded by a local sessions court into one-day police custody.

Following expiry of his remand, police transferred Shahzeb to Kohat prison on Sunday.

The law enforcers claimed that Shahzeb, before a team of investigators, has confessed to helping Mujahid flee the country after the brutal murder of Asma Rani.

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 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf district president Aftab Alam ? along with his brother, Sadiqullah Afridi, was waiting outside the girl's residence, according to police sources. He allegedly shot Rani thrice, after she stepped out of a rickshaw along with her sister-in-law. 

On Shahzeb's pointation, police also recovered a motorcycle used in the murder from his house, as well as the car in which Mujahid fled.

His family, however, said their son is innocent and he is being framed.