Islamabad police directed to execute arrest warrant for CM Gandapur

KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur gestures during a video link address to PTI workers on September 22, 2024. — Screengrab via Geo News
KP CM Ali Amin Gandapur gestures throughout a video hyperlink handle to PTI staff on September 22, 2024. — Screengrab through Geo Information
  • Police didn’t execute warrants for CM Gandapur, courtroom instructed.
  • SSP operations directed to make sure implementation of courtroom’s order.
  • Court docket adjourned the listening to until October 26, 2024.

A district and periods courtroom in Islamabad on Wednesday directed the Islamabad police to execute 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 courtroom’s order to arrest the PTI firebrand chief minister.

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

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

In the meantime, the courtroom 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 below the unlawful arms and anti-drugs legal guidelines after illicit arms and a bottle of liquor have been allegedly recovered from his automobile.

A neighborhood courtroom in Islamabad on March 7 this 12 months overturned the trial courtroom orders declaring KP CM Gandapur a “proclaimed offender” within the stated case registered towards him in Bharakahu police station.

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

District and Periods Court docket Decide Shahrukh Arjumand had nullified the trial courtroom’s order over a evaluation petition filed by the suspect.

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

The lawyer had stated that the trial courtroom had declared Gandapur a proclaimed absconder for constantly skipping the proceedings within the case. He had stated that Gandapur hadn’t obtained the courtroom’s summons resulting from non-compliance by the method server, designated for delivering the authorized paperwork.

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

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