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The brother of Australian cricket star Usman Khawaja has been arrested for allegedly framing another man over a fake terror plot, according to a report by the BBC.
Police in Australia have charged Arsalan Khawaja, 39, with forgery and an attempt to pervert justice.
In August, police charged a Sri Lankan student in Sydney over an alleged plan in a notebook about killing Australian politicians. Mohamed Kamer Nizamdeen was detained for a month before being released.
The 25-year-old PhD student had claimed that that he was framed by a rival at his workplace, the University of New South Wales.
On Tuesday, police alleged Nizamdeen had been “set up in a planned and calculated manner” by Khawaja.
Khawaja, who worked in the same department as Nizamdeen, had been partly motivated by a “personal grievance” over a woman, police said.
-Source: BBC