Fake degree: Jamshed Dasti handed 3-year jail term

Former MNA disqualified from contesting elections, also handed a penalty worth Rs5,000.

MUZAFFARGARH: Former MNA Jamshed Dasti was handed a three-year jail term by a district sessions judge in Muzaffargarh on Thursday, reported Express News. Dasti has effectively been disqualified from running in the elections.

Dasti was arrested in the court premises and was shifted to a jail amid strict security. The former MNA was also handed a penalty worth Rs5,000.

Dasti announced that his brother will now contest from his constituency in the upcoming general elections.

His lawyers said that they will move the high court against Dasti's disqualification.

He held a press conference in Multan on Wednesday where he announced his decision of not contesting the upcoming elections.

He had said that no one from his family will contest the elections against the “feudal system” of the country.

The former MNA has been persistent that his degree is real. He holds the arguments that if he had fake degree and was disqualified on the premise in 2009, then why was he allowed to contest the by-elections in 2010.

He was elected from the Muzaffargarh NA-178 constituency in the 2008 elections and again through subsequent by-elections.