A judicial magistrate on Thursday issued a notice to the prosecution on an application filed by alleged facilitators of Anmol alias Pinky seeking release in a drug case.
Zeeshan ur Rehman and Suhail ur Rehman through their lawyer filed the application with the Judicial Magistrate (South), requesting the court to discharge them from the case under Section 63 of the criminal procedure code.
On Thursday, the magistrate issued a notice to the prosecution to submit their response to the application and set June 8 for hearing arguments on it. The applicants, who ran communication shops, stated that they had been falsely and maliciously roped in the instant case by the police. They said that on May 12, an FIR was lodged at the Garden police against alleged drug baroness Anmol, adding that there was no mention of their names in the FIR nor any financial support allegedly provided by them.
The applicants stated that they were unlawfully picked up from their shops on May 13 by law enforcement personnel, after which applications regarding their illegal abduction were also submitted to the Sachal SHO by their relatives.
The applicants claimed that they were kept in unlawful, unconstitutional and secret confinement until late night on that day before being handed over to the Garden police for their “malicious implication in the instant FIR, purportedly based on a completely fabricated and managed statement of Pinky.”
They said they were produced before the judicial magistrate and the investigation officer requested their police remand, but the court rejected the police plea on the “categorical grounds that they had already been thoroughly investigated and there was absolutely nothing solid or incriminating on record against them.”
“The I.O of the case has produced a voluminous transactions, reports purporting to be made by the applicant/accused on behalf of the main accused Anmol alias Pinky which has no concern with the instant FIR as the applicant/accused are running a communication shop where hundreds of people come on daily basis for transactions being thickly business populated area,” read the application.
The applicants said the voluminous report did not show that they were in knowledge of the fact that the amount of transactions made to various people was ill gotten money of any illegal business of the main accused before May 12. “No one was aware that Anmol alias Pinky was a notorious drug dealer,” they added. They therefore requested the magistrate to discharge the applicants from the case and order their immediate release.
