MANSEHRA, Dec 7: A local court on Tuesday sentenced to life imprisonment two narcotics paddlers and acquitted the third.

The district and sessions judge Mohammad Arshad Khan announced the verdict for Mohammad Akmal and Hazrat Mohammad in a narcotics smuggling case.

In April, last year both the narcotics paddlers were arrested at Ghazikot while smuggling 40kg of chars to elsewhere in the province. Walait Shah was acquitted in the case.