Court accepts charge sheet against Armaghan’s father in drugs case

A judicial magistrate on Friday accepted the final charge sheet filed against suspect Kamran Asghar Qureshi in a drugs case. Kamran, the father of prime suspect Armaghan in the Mustafa Amir murder case, was arrested and booked by the Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) in two cases over alleged possession of an unlicensed pistol and 200 grams of ice last month.

On Friday, jail police produced suspect Kamran before the judicial magistrate (South) at the judicial complex inside the central jail as the cases came up for hearing. The magistrate accepted the final investigation report filed by the investigating officer under Section 173 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) in the drugs case and forwarded it to a sessions court for trial. He, however, directed the IO to submit the final charge sheet against the suspect in the illegal weapon case on the next date of hearing.

According to the charge sheet, on March 20 an AVCC team arrested Kamran outside his bungalow in DHA Phase V after an unlicensed 9mm pistol and ice weighing 200 grams were recovered from his bag. It said that two separate cases were lodged against him under the Control of Narcotic Substances (Amendment) Act 2022 and Sindh Arms Act 2013. The investigating officer said he had gathered concrete evidence that linked the suspect with the alleged offence, and requested the judge to accept the charge sheet.