Karsaz accident suspect acquitted in homicide case



A damaged vehicle is lying upside down due to an accident on Karsaz Road in Karachi on August 19, 2024. — Screengrab/Geo News
A broken car is mendacity the wrong way up resulting from an accident on Karsaz Highway in Karachi on August 19, 2024. — Screengrab/Geo Information

KARACHI: The suspect in Karsaz highway accident has been acquitted in a homicide case registered in opposition to her for “killing” two individuals after a settlement was reached between the 2 events.

On August 19, a younger girl and an aged man had been killed when the suspect’s luxurious car crashed into a number of autos close to the Pakistan Maritime Museum in Karachi.

These killed within the accident had been recognized as daughter and father, 26-year-old Aamna Arif and 60-year-old Imran Arif.

The periods court docket authorized the feminine driver’s bail after a settlement was reached between the 2 events.

The suspect has already secured bail within the homicide case on September 6 after the victims’ household pardoned her. 

Final month, heirs of the Karsaz highway accident victims submitted an affidavit within the court docket, saying they’d no objection to granting the suspect bail within the case because the “mishap was not intentional”.

“Issues have been settled between us and we’ve got pardoned the suspect. We’ve forgiven for Allah’s sake, who’s the Most Sort and Most Merciful,” learn the affidavit.

On August 19, the lady suspect was detained and booked below rash driving and manslaughter prices after her dashing luxurious car killed a person and his daughter and injured two others on Karsaz Highway.

Later, a separate case was lodged in opposition to her below Part 11 (ingesting liable to tazir) of the Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order (PEHO) 1979 after her medical report confirmed that she was below the affect of methamphetamine, also called ice or crystal meth.

Nonetheless, a judicial Justice of the Peace and a periods court docket individually rejected the suspect bail pleas within the drug case.

Following the dismissal of bail, the feminine driver approached the Sindh Excessive Courtroom, which granted her bail after listening to arguments from each side.

Within the detailed verdict, the SHC bench said: “Even in any other case a look on the chemical report reveals that the applicant’s blood pattern discovered no narcotic, sedative, psychoactive poisonous or some other overseas compound/factor within the given pattern. The urine pattern given by the applicant discovered that Methamphetamine (Ice) i.e. narcotic was detected within the pattern, therefore there seems to be a contradiction between the 2 experiences (blood and urine) which makes this a case of additional inquiry.”

It additional stated that the suspect is a “woman and has three kids all of whom are faculty going out of whom one is a younger feminine and as such they want the help of their mom who has already been in jail for the final 6 weeks”.

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