For two weeks: Magistrate remands suspects to judicial custody

Police presented before Magistrate on Saturday after their one-day police remand, granted by the court, expired

ISLAMABAD: Suspects arrested from a house in F-11 with more than 39,000 bottles of liquor were sent on judicial remand for two weeks on Saturday.

Police presented Abdul Aziz, Imran Yonus and Shabbir before Judicial Magistrate Rizwanuddin on Saturday after their one-day police remand, granted by the court, expired.

The counsel for the suspects Imran Feroze Malik, however, argued that the liquor had been brought in through the Islamabad Dry Port under a permit and after paying the set duties on it.

“There is no justification for the arrests if the government had permitted the consignment,” he said, adding that the liquor stock had been brought for the diplomatic community ahead of Christmas. He said the consignment belonged to the diplomatic community and the men arrested from the house were just “delivery men”.

Moreover, Malik claimed that under the Geneva Convention police cannot enter a foreigner’s residence.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 25^th, 2016.