Ephedrine verdict: Enraged PML-N workers break window panes of court
The workers chanted slogans against the judicial officials and destroyed court property.
RAWALPINDI (Dunya News) – Pakistan Muslim league-Nawaz (PML-N) workers got furious over the verdict in ephedrine case against Hanif Abbasi and broke the window panes of anti-narcotics court building.
The workers also chanted slogans against the judicial officials and destroyed court property.
On Saturday, special court handed life imprisonment to Hanif Abbasi in ephedrine quota case after which, he was shifted to Adiala Jail.
Hanif Abbasi had provided legal use of as much as 363KG ephedrine whereas he was failed to submit the evidence pertaining to legal usage of 137KG ephedrine in the court.
Judge Sardar Muhammad Akram pronounced the judgment and also imposed a fine of Rs1 million on the PML-N leader.
However, seven other accused in ephedrine case were acquitted by the court.
In the light of court’s verdict, Hanif Abbasi has been barred from contesting elections from Rawalpindi’s NA-60.
It is to be mentioned here that Hanif Abbasi was accused of selling as much as 500kg of controlled chemical ephedrine to the narcotics smugglers. All requests of Hanif Abbasi aimed at delaying the ephedrine case by ten days was rejected by the courts.
The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) had registered the case against Abbasi and his accomplices back then in June 2012 under various sections of the Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS) Act.
The anti-narcotics court had indicted Hanif Abbasi and the other accused back then in 2014.
