KARACHI: An anti-corruption court reserved its order on Wednesday on acquittal applications of two accused in a 26-year-old poll rigging case.

Hayat Awan and Malik Jan along with their accomplices have been charged with taking away 150,000 identity cards from the Pakistan Printing Press before the elections of 1988 for rigging. The accused though their counsel moved acquittal applications and after hearing arguments from both sides the judge of the special federal anti-corruption court-I, Ahmed Lugman Memon, reserved the order till March 10.

The co-accused, Tariq Altaf, Hameed and Sahib Khan, have passed away during the trial.

A case (FIR No.14/88) was registered under Sections 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant or banker or merchant or agent), 411 (dishonestly receiving stolen property), 414 (assisting in concealment of stolen property) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code read with Section 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 at the FIA Crime Circle police station of Karachi.

Illicit weapon case A court sentenced on Wednesday a man to seven years in prison in an illicit weapon case.

Rehmatullah was found guilty of carrying an unlicensed pistol at the time of his arrest last year within the remit of the Ferozabad police station.

The assistant additional district and sessions judge (east), Sarwat Sultana, also imposed a fine of Rs30,000 and in case of non-payment the convict would undergo an additional one-month imprisonment.