The Cairo Criminal Court’s Seventh South Circuit, sitting at the Fifth Settlement, sentenced a defendant identified as Ahmed M. in absentia to three years of strict imprisonment and fined him 10,000 Egyptian pounds for possessing hashish and an unlicensed knife in the Second Nasr City police district.[1] The judicial panel was headed by Counsellor Mohamed Rushdi Abu El-Naga, alongside Counsellors Khaled Mohamed Ali and Ahmed Mahmoud Saeed, with prosecutor Mostafa Ahmed Khalil and court secretary Tareq Fathi Kamel present.[1] The referral order in Case No. 2971 of 2026 Felonies Second Nasr City, registered as No. 1053 of 2026 New Cairo Total, indicated that the incident dated to 3 April 2026 following investigations by an assistant detective at the Second Nasr City police station.[1]

After obtaining a search and arrest warrant from the Public Prosecution, the investigating officer and a police squad moved to the Seventh District in Nasr City and arrested the man behind a building near his residence.[1] A physical search uncovered a transparent plastic bag containing 27 pieces of a brown substance, confirmed by the forensic chemical laboratory to be hashish, along with a wooden-handled knife bearing traces of the drug on its blade.[1] The ruling noted that the defendant admitted possessing both the narcotics and the bladed weapon, claiming he carried the knife to protect the seized drugs.[1]

The court stated it was unconvinced that trafficking intent existed because he was not apprehended selling drugs and carried no tools typically used in drug dealing, determining instead that he possessed the hashish for personal consumption.[1] Judges based the judgment on the arresting officer’s testimony, the search results, and the forensic authority’s chemical laboratory report confirming the 27 pieces of hashish and the knife residue.[1] The court convicted the defendant of possessing hashish for personal consumption and carrying an unlicensed bladed weapon, treated the two offenses as indivisible, and imposed the penalty for the more severe offense.[1] The judgment ordered the confiscation of the seized hashish and knife, sentenced him in absentia to three years of strict imprisonment with a 10,000-pound fine, and required him to pay criminal court costs.[1]