KARACHI: The Sindh High Court has upheld the life imprisonment handed down to a man in a drug peddling case.

A special court for control of narcotic substances had sentenced Mohammad Sadiq to life in prison in March 2020 for transporting 113 kilograms of hashish in a truck on Hub River Road in August 2013.

The convict, through his counsel, challenged the conviction before the SHC and after hearing both sides and examining the record and proceedings, s two-judge bench headed by Justice Mohammad Karim Khan Agha dismissed the appeal and maintained the verdict of the trial court.

The bench in its judgement observed that the prosecution had constituted an uninterrupted chain of evidence ranging from the seizure to forensic analysis of the contraband and all the witnesses were in comfortable unison on all the salient features.

At the time arrest, the appellant was driving the truck and hashish was recovered from five concealed wooden crates.

The bench further said that the appellant has failed to point out any material or procedural illegality in the impugned judgment of trial court.

Published in Dawn, March 20th, 2022