RAWALPINDI, April 28: The special anti-corruption court on Wednesday awarded one-year rigorous imprisonment to an assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Choa Syedan Shah police station for not handing over the recovered stolen goods to their real owner.

Judge Mohammad Aslam Khan also imposed Rs200,000 fine on Kazim Hussain. The prosecution had contended before the court that the ASI had embezzled some stolen goods which he had recovered. The ASI refused to hand over the goods to the real owner despite receiving repeated reminders, the prosecution maintained.

Meanwhile, the judge special anti-terrorism court No 2, Safdar Hussain Malik, sent three members of the Muttahida Transport Action Committee on judicial remand to Adiala Jail.

Sultan Ahmed, Raja Riaz and Sardar Ishaq had been booked by City police under Section 109 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) for hatching conspiracy of setting ablaze a bus of a franchise transport company on Murree Road a few days ago.

The police had sought a five-day physical remand of the accused by contending that they wanted to make some recovery from the committee members. However, the court refused to remand the accused into police custody by observing that they possessed nothing according to the FIR.

The additional district and sessions judge, Abdul Qayyum Raja, cancelled the nomination papers of Rohail Ishtiaq, a candidate for the district council minority seat, after it was proved that he was not yet 25 years old.

The court took the move of rejecting the nomination papers of Ishtiaq after Tariq Jan, a candidate for the same slot, filed a petition in the court. In his petition Tariq Jan had contended that Ishtiaq had not yet reached the age of 25 and, therefore, was not eligible to contest the election. The petitioner had also produced documentary proofs of Ishtiaq's age.