PESHAWAR, Dec 3: The Peshawar High Court on Monday directed a detained Nigerian female to produce school record of her daughter studying in Pakistan.

A single bench of the court comprising Justice Khalida Rachied fixed Dec 10 for next hearing of the application, filed by the Nigerian national, Ms Fatima Muhammad, requesting the court for quashment of a false case registered against her by the Anti-Narcotics Force.

The female, about eight months pregnant, was earlier acquitted by a court in Haripur in a narcotics case and in that case the court had also imposed a penalty of Rs25,000 on ANF for vexatious allegations against the lady.

However, the ANF showed her detention in another case registered in Peshawar.

The applicant was arrested by the ANF on suspicions that she was a lady named Ms Safarata alias Fatima, considered a ring leader of a gang of drug traffickers.

Advocate Sher Bahadur appeared for the applicant. The bench inquired him about the purpose of the applicant’s visit to Pakistan. He informed that her daughter had been studying here. The bench asked him to produce record of her school.

The applicant has been in prison for the past three months and she claimed that except one part of her name, Fatima, which was very much common in African countries, nothing was common between her and the actual culprit. Even the countries were different as the actual accused belonged to Sierra Leon.

On Sept 19, 2000, an FIR was registered by the ANF in Haripur when it recovered contraband from an accused, Olufemi, resident of Lagos. The said accused told the ANF that the consignment in fact belonged to Ms Safarata alias Fatima. Another accused, Kazeem Baridele, was arrested at the Peshawar Airport on Aug 29, 2001, and from soles of his shoes heroin was recovered.

When the police arrested the present applicant, she was first charged in the case of Haripur and when the court ordered her release the ANF booked her in the second case of Peshawar. In the earlier case the applicant was acquitted on Sept 7.