Coalmine owner sentenced

Published June 29, 2006

QUETTA, June 28: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court has convicted coalmine owner Sheikh Mohammad Islam for a six-month sentence for contempt of court. The bench comprising Chief Justice Amanullah Khan Yasinzai and Justice Akhtar Zaman Malghani on Wednesday sentenced the contemnor for using abusive language in the open court when it was full of lawyers and general public/litigants.

The court order stated that Shiekh Islam of the Pakistan Mining Industries (Pvt) Ltd wrote a contemptuous letter dated June 26 to the Chief Justice in retaliation for the dismissal of his petition against the deputy speaker Balochistan Assembly.

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