21 January 2004	Wednesday	28 Ziqa'ad 1424

PESHAWAR, Jan 20: Additional District and Sessions Judge Sardar Mohammad Irshad acquitted on Tuesday two women accused of drug pushing. The court observed that the prosecution could not prove its case against the two accused, Naseem and Farhada, residents of Nowshera. The two women were arrested by the officials of Customs Department on Aug 11, 2002, while they were travelling in a bus near Peshawar Saddar.

The customs officials claimed that they had prior information about the smuggling of contraband by the women. They said that a bus coming from Bara, Khyber Agency, was stopped and upon search 15kg of charas was seized from the two women.

Advocate Noor Alam appeared for the accused and argued that the chemical examination of the samples from the seized contraband was not in accordance with law.