Islamabad court docket directs police to implement arrest warrant for CM Gandapur in liquor case

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur addresses an event in an undated picture. — Facebook/Ali Amin Khan Gandapur/File
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur addresses an occasion in an undated image. — Fb/Ali Amin Khan Gandapur/File

A neighborhood court docket within the federal capital on Wednesday directed the Islamabad police to implement arrest warrant issued for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur in a 2016 case, whereby he’s accused of carrying liquor and unlicensed weapons.

Civil Decide Mubashir Hassan directed the SSP operations of Islamabad police to make sure implementation of the court docket’s order to arrest the PTI firebrand chief minister.

In the course of the course of listening to, a report on CM Gandapur’s arrest warrants was submitted to the native court docket. The police didn’t execute the arrest warrants for the provincial chief govt, learn the report.

Irked by his steady non-appearance, the court docket maintained his non-bailable arrest warrants and directed the authority involved to supply the chief minister earlier than the court docket after taking him into custody.

In the meantime, the court docket adjourned the listening to until October 26.

Earlier this month, Judicial Justice of the Peace Mubashir Hussain Chishti issued non-bailable arrest warrant for the KP CM in arms and liquor restoration case.

What is the case?

A case was lodged towards the PTI chief after the alleged restoration of 5 Kalashnikov rifles, a pistol, six magazines, a bullet-proof vest, three teargas shells, and bottles of alcohol in October 2016.

Gandapur, who was then serving as a provincial minister in KP, was charged beneath the unlawful arms and anti-drugs legal guidelines after illicit arms and a bottle of liquor have been allegedly recovered from his automotive.

A neighborhood court docket in Islamabad on March 7 this yr overturned the trial court docket orders declaring KP CM Gandapur a “proclaimed offender” within the mentioned case registered towards him in Bharakahu police station.

Earlier, a trial court docket had declared Gandapur an absconder for evading the regulation within the case.

District and Classes Court docket Decide Shahrukh Arjumand had nullified the trial court docket’s order over a evaluate petition filed by the suspect.

The petitioner’s lawyer had knowledgeable the court docket that Gandapur could not seem in court docket due to his official engagements as the brand new KP chief minister. He had requested the court docket to exempt Gandapur from the proceedings listening to that day.

The lawyer had mentioned that the trial court docket had declared Gandapur a proclaimed absconder for repeatedly skipping the proceedings within the case. He had mentioned that Gandapur hadn’t acquired the court docket’s summons as a consequence of non-compliance by the method server, designated for delivering the authorized paperwork.

Accepting the request, the classes decide had directed the lawyer to submit surety bonds price Rs50,000 on Gandapur’s behalf and current a neighborhood individual because the guarantor.

The court docket had then remanded the case again to the trial court docket whereas overturning its orders declaring Gandapur an absconder.