KARACHI: A judicial magistrate on Saturday sent a woman to prison and remanded her male accomplice in police custody in a drug trafficking case.
The police brought Hira Naz and her brother-in-law Zeeshan Abdul Ghaffar before the court and sought their 14-day custodyforfurtherinterrogation.
The investigating officer said that the police were also making efforts to arrest absconding accomplices on the leads to be providedby the detained suspects.
The magistrate sent the woman to jail on judicial remand and handed over the male suspect to the police on four-dayphysical remand with the direction to the IO to produce him on the next hearing along with a progress report.
The police claimed to have arrested the suspects in a Landhi locality, recovered over 19 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine commonly called ice from them and also contended that the detained suspects were linked with an Afghanistan-based narcotics network.
They also claimed that the suspects were in contact with a notorious Afghan drug dealer and the female suspect’s husband Pervez was also among the absconding accomplices. -Staff Reporter