LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Tuesday granted bail to Rana Sanaullah in narcotics case. Sanaullah has been granted against two surety bonds worth Rs1 million each.
An anti-narcotics court on December 11 extended judicial remand of PML-N leader Sanaullah till January 4, 2020, in the heroin smuggling case.
On November 20, Sanaullah had approached LHC for a second time seeking his release on bail in a drug case made against him by Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF).
A special court for Control of Narcotics Substance on November 10 had dismissed second bail petition of Sanaullah. The bail petition said the case was politically motivated and based on mala fide intention. It said the recovery of narcotics attributed to the petitioner was just eyewash.
The petition further said the prosecution had failed to present any independent witness of the alleged recovery from the petitioner. It had said the video evidence presented before the trial court was contradictory to the story narrated in the first information report (FIR), according to The News.
The ANF on July 2, had arrested Sanaullah, a senior PML-N leader while travelling with his guards to a meeting from Faisalabad to Lahore.
A case was filed in accordance with the Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 1997, after a large stash of contraband was recovered from his vehicle.
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