Accused in narcotics case acquitted

PESHAWAR: A local court on Wednesday acquitted an accused charged with smuggling huge quantity of narcotics from Afghanistan to Pakistan.

Additional District and Sessions Judge of Peshawar, Alia Lodhi, acquitted the accused Behram, a resident of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency, in the narcotics case after the public prosecutor failed to prove the charges against him. During the arguments, counsels for the accused, Ambreen Gulzar and Sana Gulzar, submitted before the court that Customs officials arrested the accused on May 20, 2015 and seized his truck.

In the first information report, they said, the Customs officials said the accused was driving a truck coming from Afghanistan and was stopped at the Torkham checkpost on Pak-Afghan border. As per the first information report, they recovered five kilogram heroin and more than 26 kilogram hashish from the truck. The accused was charged under Section 9 of the Control of Narcotics Substance Act.

However, during the course of arguments the lawyers submitted that there was conflict in the statements of official witnesses.