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KARACHI, Jan 16: The special anti-narcotics court, headed by Judge Ali Nawaz Pirzada, convicted four drug traffickers — three Nigerians and a local — and sentenced them to different terms of rigorous imprisonment.
All four drug traffickers, arrested separately at the Quaid-i-Azam International Airport last year, had concealed different quantities of contraband heroin, stuffed in capsules, in their rectums.
They were intercepted by the officials of the anti-narcotics force and were sent to the Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre, where they excreted the heroin-stuffed capsules.
Judge Pirzada sentenced two Nigerians — Ya Moosa and Pedro Oafilva — to suffer rigorous imprisonment for five years and pay a fine of Rs50,000 each. Moosa concealed 66 capsules, containing 877 grams of heroin, and Oafilva was carrying 845 grams, stuffed in 65 capsules.
The two were arrested on May 19 and June 18 respectively.
Another Nigerian, Valentine Iffanyi, and a local drug smuggler, Abdul Ghani, were sentenced to suffer rigorous imprisonment for six years and pay a fine of Rs60,000 each.
The Nigerian, arrested on June 18, had concealed 788 grams of heroin in 54 capsules. Accused Ghani, arrested on June 26, last year, had 71 capsules, having 747 grams of heroin.
The judge also ordered that the defaulter on the payment of fine would have to undergo an additional one-year term.
All of them were convicted after pleading guilty before the court.
ACQUITTED: The additional district and sessions judge, West, Sagheer Rana, acquitted three men in a case pertaining to shootout with police.
Abdullah Shah, Hafeez ur Rehman and Sheeraz, booked for attacking a police party in 1996 in the limits of the Jackson police under sections 324 and 353 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), were exonerated of charges for want of incriminating evidence.
NBWs AGAINST COPS: The additional district and sessions judge, Central, Ghulam Qadir Leghari, issued non-bailable warrants for the arrest of an ASI for not appearing before the court despite several notices.
The judge also directed the police authorities to deduct Rs5,000 from the salary of ASI Shaukat Zaman, who was the investigation officer in a case, registered in 1997.
Accused Abdur Raheem was booked by the Nazimabad police for possessing an unlicensed pistol.
The IO was required by the court for his evidence in the case, which has not been proceeding due to his absence.
The judge ordered the police authorities to arrest the cop and produce him before the court on 31st.
