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MULTAN: In a unique sentence, a court in Multan ordered an accused to raise awareness about traffic laws in different chowks of the city for 36 days.
Judicial Magistrate Perwez Khan sentenced Muhammed Ajmal to spread awareness on ‘High speed during driving is fatal’ among the public for three days every month for a year.
Moreover, the responsibility of monitoring and making sure that the punishment was being implemented had been given to the related probation officers of the department.
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A case was registered against the accused for harassing a lady health worker while driving in Mumtazabad area. The punishment was awarded after the accused accepted his crime.
Earlier in 2016, a sessions court in Muzaffargarh ordered two drug peddlers to clean streets and sewers for a year as punishment for their crime.
Alipur Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Fawad Arif sentenced Qaisar Abbas and Fiyaz Hussain to sweep and mop streets and roads and clean gutters in Alipur tehsil for a year. The drug dealers were also fined Rs500.
The court ordered the tehsil municipal officer to submit a report every 15 days on the implementation of the sentence.
A case was registered against Abbas and Hussain at the City Police Station Alipur on the charges of selling drugs.
Published in The Express Tribune, November 13th, 2017.
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