Jailed for drug crime

Published September 8, 2005

QUETTA, Sept 7: The additional sessions judge II, Quetta, awarded life sentence to two men who were found involved in a drugs case on Tuesday . The court ordered the two men to pay a fine of 50,000 rupees each. Judge Munnawar Ahmed Shahwani sentenced Para Din and Jailani Khan to life imprisonment.

According to the prosecution police had arrested them from a nearby locality in 2004 and recovering 196 kilograms of hashish from them. They were tried under narcotics laws.

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