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KARACHI, July 26: Justice Muhammad Moosa K. Laghari of the Sindh High Court on Thursday allowed an appeal against the conviction in a drug selling case and remanded back the case to the trial court for retrial.
Accused Aamir Khan, a resident of Swabi in the NWFP, was given 14 years in jail and told to pay a Rs30,000 fine by the special anti-narcotics court in Nawabshah on Nov 20, 2006 finding him guilty in the case.
He was arrested by a team of the Anti-Narcotics Force in Nawabshah on Dec 5, 2003 and four kilograms of charas was seized from him.
Denying the charges and dissatisfied with the trial court order, Mr Khan filed an application against the conviction, praying to the court to set aside the impugned order of the trial court and acquit him.
Defence counsel Ejaz Shaikh said the trial court did not consider the contradiction and improvement made by the prosecution witness.
He said the conviction was based on unsatisfactory evidence and liable to be set aside.
The single bench, allowing the application, sent back the case to the trial court for retrial.
LJ activist’s appeal
The hearing of the banned Lashkar-i-Jhangvi activist’s appeal against conviction in the Madinatul Ilm suicide bombing case was adjourned for a date in office.
The matter was to be taken up on Thursday before the SHC's single bench comprising Justice Muhammad Moosa K. Laghari for hearing but was not taken up due to want of time.
LJ activist Muhammad Tehseen alias Arshad was sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court on March 22. He along with other co-accused was charged with masterminding a suicide bombing at Imambargah Madinatul Ilm in the Gulshan-i-Iqbal area which left three persons, including a police head constable, dead and more than 22 wounded on May 30, 2005. —PPI
