KARACHI, Oct 16: A woman drug trafficker and her teenaged son were sentenced on Tuesday to life imprisonment for carrying in all 23 kilograms of charas.
Judge Ali Nawaz Pirzada of the special Anti-narcotics Court (ANC) also imposed a fine of Rs100,000 each on Siddiqa Bibi and 16-year-old Gul Mohammad. The judge also ordered that the defaulter on the payment would have to undergo an additional one-year term.
The woman and her son were arrested on Sept 3, 2000 at the Cantt Railway Station, where they had arrived from Quetta by the Balochistan Express. The railway police party, headed by Sub- Inspector Irshad Baig, seized 11.5kg charas from each.
Meanwhile, the judge sentenced two nationals of Nepal to a three-year term for possessing contraband heroin.
Depak Grunge and Budha Man Grunge were arrested on June 16 by the customs drug enforcement staff at the Quaid-i-Azam International Airport.
They were carrying 500 grams and 550 grams heroin respectively in their body cavities.
The judge also imposed a fine of Rs50,000 each on the convicts and ordered that the defaulter on the payment would have to undergo an additional three-month term.
BAILED: A former minority MPA, Khurshid Khokhar, who was arrested with 55 others for violent activities on the occasion of burial of victims of the Rimpa Plaza incident, was granted bail on Wednesday by a judicial magistrate.
JM Lubna Yousuf of District South gave him bail in the sum of Rs20,000.
Police had baton-charged the participants of a funeral procession and arrested dozens of the mourners on Sept 29, when they turned violent on Sharea Faisal and in Saddar on way to the Christians’ cemetery.
So far 55 people, arrested for breaking the windowpanes of vehicles and toppling three traffic signals, have been released on bail.
Another former minority MPA, Michael Javed, was booked in the case. He is still untraceable.
The participants of the mourners’ procession were held for causing breach of peace, riots, damaging private and government’s properties, etc.
REMANDED: The judicial magistrate, South, Irum Jahangir, remanded two brothers, who shot and wounded three people on the premises of the City courts on Tuesday, to the police custody for interrogation.
Mubeen Khan alias Bobi and Mehmood Khan were arrested by the Risala police as they tried to flee the scene after shooting and wounding two under-trial prisoners — Raees and Shakil — and a passerby, Mumtaz.
According to the police, Mubeen and Mehmood, belonging to the group of Rahman Dakait, had opened fire at UTP Raees, who had allegedly killed Farooq Niazi, belonging to the Badshah Khan group of the two brothers.
