arshad5
September 11, 2014, 12:26pm
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Re: Live Updates of Azadi March
We should believe Abbasi as he is in drug business anyway. He knows better.
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Court rejects Hanif Abbasi’s plea for bail in ephedrine case
RAWALPINDI:** A Control of Narcotics Substances (CNS) court on Thursday rejected bail petition of former MNA Hanif Abbasi in the ephedrine quota case.**
Abbasi’s counsel had submitted last Monday a fresh application under Section 256-K requesting the court to acquit his client. The counsel claimed that his client was innocent and that the case was fabricated and politically motivated.
He told that ANF has no substantial evidence against the politician, therefore the court may grant bail to his client in the case.
The court on Monday last deferred the indictment of the PML-N leader, his brother and five others till August 28 in the drug case. (ANF) prosecutor Shahid Abbasi requested the court to frame charges against the accused, saying that the defence was using delay tactics to avoid trial of the accused.
Special Judge Akhtar Bahadur, rejected the bail plea of Muhammad Hanif Abbasi and adjourned hearing the case till September 2. Anti Narcotics Force (ANF) had submitted the challan to the CNS court and declared Abbasi, his brother and five employees of Grey Pharmaceuticals as the accused. Earlier, the indictment was delayed due to the lawyers’ strike.
Abbasi is accused of misappropriating 500kg of the controlled chemical ephedrine, obtained in 2010, and was allegedly selling it to narcotics smugglers. The charge sheet also included the statements of two officials of Arafaat Traders, a Karachi-based medicine distribution company to whom Abbasi claimed to have supplied 11,000 ephedrine-containing tablets.
ANF had registered the case against the co-accused in June 2012. However, in November 2012, Abbasi obtained a bail from the LHC Rawalpindi Bench.
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If there is a substance to these claims then he should be locked up, instead of having a media trial. Many cases were highlighted by the media during PPP rule, and we had a media trial of those people but no one has been convicted.
As far as Imran Khan is concerned this is not the first time that I have heard that he takes drugs, so let him sue Hanif Abbassi if the allegations are false. The sort of circle that Imran Khan used to hang out with, it would have been pretty normal to take drugs, and alcohol in nightclubs.