Court bars police from arresting youth implicated in drug’s case

PML-N leader demands Rs10b in defamation suit against PM

RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Bench of Lahore High Court (LHC) has barred the police from arresting a young man charged with drug possession.

The decision was given by Justice Mujahid Mustaqeem after he approved the interim bail of suspect Riyasat Khan.

During the proceeding, Advocate Shahzaib Khan said that Pirwudhai Police called his client to the police station without any clear reason. When he refused to go to the station, the police registered a drug case against him.

The advocate questioned the basis on which this case was registered against his client. He highlighted that the police had no way of recovering drugs from his possession if he never even had an encounter with them. He expressed that the police were harassing his client after which the court approved the suspect’s bail against Rs200,000.

The court also barred the police from arresting the suspect.

Police arrest gang supplying 'Ice' in schools, colleges

Case adjourned

The District and Sessions Court has adjourned defamation case against Prime Minister Imran Khan, until July 25.

The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Hanif Abbasi had filed a defamation suit against Imran Khan for calling him a drug peddler and ‘Ephedrine Abbasi’. Abbasi claimed that Imran’s allegations had dented his image, and so he demanded Rs10 billion as compensation.

Judge Malik Shafiq Ahmed ordered lawyers of both parties to submit answers at the next hearing.

Suspect acquitted

A special Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) acquitted a suspect accused of different offences. Judge Suleman Baig ordered the release of Jameel Jamola against whom Pirwudhai Police had registered cases under sections of terrorism, destruction and riots.

Similarly, the same court adjourned the hearing of a trial against the suspect, Israr Bilal, in a case related to terrorism. 

Published in The Express Tribune, July 23^rd, 2019.