KARACHI(National Times)- A court on Saturday granted police more time to file the final charge sheet against alleged cocaine dealer Anmol Pinky and other suspects in a drug peddling case.
At the last hearing, an investigating officer had filed an interim investigation report against prime suspect Pinky and others in a drug case lodged at Garden police station, while the court had sought the final report from police on June 20.
When a judicial magistrate (South) took up the matter for hearing on Saturday, the IO could not file the final charge sheet and requested more time on the grounds that forensic and other reports were still awaited.
While adjourning the hearing till June 27, the court allowed further time and directed the IO to file the final investigation report by the next hearing.
The magistrate also reserved orders till the next hearing on applications seeking permission to record the voice samples of the suspects in the drug case and to discharge the names of two suspects from the case.
The IO had filed an application seeking directions for the jail authorities to allow the recording of the voice samples of the suspects in prison for voice-matching evaluation, as multiple audio recordings as well as voice messages were exchanged between the suspects and external operators.
Suspects Zeeshan-ur-Rehman and his brother Sohail-ur-Rehman, through their counsel, had also filed an application under Section 63 (discharge of person apprehended) of the Criminal Procedure Code.
The lawyer submitted that the applicants, alleged to be associates of Pinky, had been falsely implicated in the case by police, as their names were neither mentioned in the FIR nor was there any indication that they had provided any financial support to the main suspect.
However, a public prosecutor argued that the applicants could not be exonerated as they were accomplices of Pinky and a sessions court had also dismissed their bail applications a few days ago.
The prosecutor also contended that both brothers were operating a mobile top-up shop and that alleged drug dealer Pinky used to transfer drug money into their bank accounts.
