Court order: Case against FBI agent to be dropped
Court gives order after police present final report.
FBI agent Joel Cox. PHOTO: INP
KARACHI:
A local court in Karachi ordered that the case against the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent, who was apprehended at Jinnah International Airport, should be dropped, Express News reported on Monday.
The FBI agent, Joel Cox, was arrested at the Karachi airport on May 5 for carrying ammunition. He was later released on bail on May 8.
A district judge in Karachi, Hasan Ali Kalwar, quashed the case after police failed to present any evidence against the agent.
Cox was presented before district court Malir and the police presented a final report regarding the case after which the court gave the order. On May 10, the court had ordered the police to submit the final challan today (Monday). In the final report the police had said that this whole situation had occurred because of a misunderstanding.
Kalwar said police had invoked an incorrect section of the law.
"He was not carrying any weapon but was carrying only the bullets and magazines," the judge was quoted as saying by a court official.
During the hearing of the FBI agent case today, the court also ordered that his belongings be returned to him.
Police did not pursue the case after the interior ministry informed them that the agent was authorised to carry the ammunition, police officer Khalid Mehmood told AFP.
A letter from the US embassy was also presented before the court by the FBI agent's lawyers. The letter stated that Cox was on a mission and was allowed to carry the ammunition.
Cox was travelling from Karachi to Islamabad by PK-308 on the evening of May 5 when a routine search by Airport Security Force (ASF) staff at the Jinnah International Airport found 15 bullets and a magazine in his bags.
He was detained before being handed over to the airport police station. A case was lodged against him under Section 23 1(a) of the Sindh Arms Act, 2013. When he was presented before the district Malir court the following day, the court had sent him into judicial remanded till May 10.
The district and sessions court Malir had released Cox after the payment of a surety bond worth Rs1,000,000.
A local court in Karachi ordered that the case against the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) agent, who was apprehended at Jinnah International Airport, should be dropped, Express News reported on Monday.
The FBI agent, Joel Cox, was arrested at the Karachi airport on May 5 for carrying ammunition. He was later released on bail on May 8.
A district judge in Karachi, Hasan Ali Kalwar, quashed the case after police failed to present any evidence against the agent.
Cox was presented before district court Malir and the police presented a final report regarding the case after which the court gave the order. On May 10, the court had ordered the police to submit the final challan today (Monday). In the final report the police had said that this whole situation had occurred because of a misunderstanding.
Kalwar said police had invoked an incorrect section of the law.
"He was not carrying any weapon but was carrying only the bullets and magazines," the judge was quoted as saying by a court official.
During the hearing of the FBI agent case today, the court also ordered that his belongings be returned to him.
Police did not pursue the case after the interior ministry informed them that the agent was authorised to carry the ammunition, police officer Khalid Mehmood told AFP.
A letter from the US embassy was also presented before the court by the FBI agent's lawyers. The letter stated that Cox was on a mission and was allowed to carry the ammunition.
Cox was travelling from Karachi to Islamabad by PK-308 on the evening of May 5 when a routine search by Airport Security Force (ASF) staff at the Jinnah International Airport found 15 bullets and a magazine in his bags.
He was detained before being handed over to the airport police station. A case was lodged against him under Section 23 1(a) of the Sindh Arms Act, 2013. When he was presented before the district Malir court the following day, the court had sent him into judicial remanded till May 10.
The district and sessions court Malir had released Cox after the payment of a surety bond worth Rs1,000,000.