PESHAWAR: An accountability court here on Monday sentences former deputy superintendent of police Rajab Ali seven years rigorous imprisonment and Rs14.68 million fine for possessing illegal assets.

Judge Zarqesh Sani also handed down five years rigorous imprisonment to him for producing forged documents to sell land to the co-accused, Lateef Hussain.

Both the sentences will run concurrently.

Lateef Hussain, too, was awarded seven years rigorous imprisonment and Rs14.08 million fine in the main case.

The court also sentenced him five years rigorous imprisonment over the production of forged documents.

The National Accountability Bureau, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, had arrested Rajab Ali on April 18, 2014, when he was a DSP in Mardan district.

He was charged with possessing assets disproportionate to known sources of his income.

Separate inquiries were conducted against the prime accused by the NAB and the police after the Peshawar High Court took notice of his alleged illegal activities and misuse of powers in 2012.

The high court had taken notice of those activities after several cases surfaced of illegal detention of suspects.

The NAB had alleged that both the accused persons were shareholders in the purchase of millions of rupees worth of land in Taxila.

It said the accused also tried to mislead the investigation team by preparing a forged document showing the co-accused, Lateef Hussain, had purchased 80 kanals of land valuing Rs14.087 million from Rajab Ali and his family in Kurram Agency.

NAB special prosecutor Riaz Mohmand said the prosecution had proved the case against the prime accused and his alleged accomplice.

DRUG PEDDLER SENTENCED: Additional district and sessions judge Riffat Aamir on Monday convicted a man of drug trafficking and sentenced him to life imprisonment and Rs50,000 fine.

The prosecution had claimed that the police had arrested Yar Mohammad, of Landi Kotal, in Pishtakhara on Jan 24, 2012, after the recovery of 160kg of charas from the secret cavities of his truck.

It said the truck was on the way to Punjab from Fata.

Published in Dawn, February 9th, 2016