PESHAWAR, Sept 21: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday upheld life imprisonment awarded to two drug traffickers by a subordinate court in Swat.

A two-judge bench comprising acting Chief Justice Shahjehan Khan Yousafzai and Justice Dost Muhammad Khan dismissed the appeals of convicts Mahboobur Rehman and Ala Muhammad with the observation that the appellants were caught red-handed while carrying the contraband in their vehicle and the prosecution had proved its case beyond any reasonable doubt.

The appellants had been arrested on April 4, 2004 by Swat police while they were going in a car. The police had recovered 18 kilogram of charas (cannabis) from the vehicle.

Earlier, their counsel argued before the bench that they had been implicated in the case.