A local court in Islamabad on Thursday overturned the orders declaring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur “proclaimed offender” in a case of possession of illegal arms and liquor.
A trial court had declared Gandapur an absconder for evading the law in the case registered against him in Barakahu Police Station after the recovery of five Kalashnikov rifles, a pistol, six magazines, a bullet-proof vest, three teargas shells, and bottles of alcohol in 2016.
District and Sessions Court Judge Shahrukh Arjumand nullified the trial court’s order over a review petition filed by Gandapur.
The petitioner’s lawyer informed the court that Gandapur couldn’t appear in court due to his official engagements as the new KP CM. He requested the court to exempt Gandapur from the proceedings for Thursday.
The lawyer stated that the trial court had declared Gandapur a proclaimed absconder for continuously skipping the proceedings in the case.
