Usman Khawaja's brother jailed over fake terror plot

SYDNEY: Australia cricketer Usman Khawaja's brother has been given a jail sentence of at least two and a half years for his actions in trying to frame a colleague in a fake terror plot. According to a report in Sydney Morning Herald, Arsalan Khawaja wrote a series of detailed threats in a book belonging to his colleague Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen, then handed it to his project manager at University of New South Wales in August 2018. When the police became involved, the 40-year-old misled investigators about the book's origin and claimed he simply found it.

Arsalan wrote the notebook after being jealous of Nizamdeen's contact with a mutual female friend. Following the incident, Nizamdeen was then arrested until police discovered the book was a hoax.

Judge Robert Weber, in the New South Wales District Court, on Thursday said Arsalan wrote the notebook because he believed Nizamdeen was interested in the woman and wanted him "gone". IANS

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