PESHAWAR, May 10: The Peshawar district and sessions judge, Shahjehan Khan Akhundzada, on Wednesday found a juvenile offender guilty of drug pushing and sentenced him to life imprisonment with a fine of Rs100,000.

The court directed officials to keep Ahsan Noman in a borstal institution till the age of 18. The court said that the prosecution had proved its case against the accused. The accused was arrested on Sept 27, 2005, near the Gulbahar bus stand. The police had recovered 13kg of charas from his possession. He was charged under section 9(c) of the Control of Narcotics Substance Act, 1997. The accused pleaded not guilty and said the police had falsely implicated him in the case.