Driver sentenced to life over 4,947 kg of charas seized near Peshawar
The Special Court (CNS) in Peshawar on 9 June 2010 sentenced truck driver Ali Muhammad to life imprisonment for smuggling 4,947 kg of charas found under wild grass in his truck at the Bara Qadeem check-post on 29 July 2009; one arrest, with a Rs200,000 fine.
ANF officers acting on prior information stopped truck JU 0810/Sindh coming from the Bara tribal
territory at Gilani Manzil on Bara Road near the Bara Qadeem check-post on the evening of 29
July 2009.[1][2]A search found 198 plastic sacks of charas hidden under wild grass in the
truck’s body; weighed at 4,947 kg and bound for Punjab, the load led to the arrest of driver Ali
Muhammad.[1][2]
The Special Court (CNS) in Peshawar convicted Ali Muhammad on 9 June 2010 and sentenced him to
life imprisonment with a Rs200,000 fine, with two more years in prison in default.[2]The
forensic laboratory confirmed the substance was charas, and the agency put its
international-market price at about six billion rupees.[1][2]
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