Call it sheer un-professionalism on the part of the police investigating personnel or treating the cases in respect of drugs sale, possession and acquiring just casually and thus not presenting a cogent and solid prosecution case before the court, the lone surviving accused of the three in a case under Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPSA) got acquittal after the case running for as many as 11 years. The case was registered at Miran Sahib Police Station on July 16, 2009 against three accused. During the course of trial, two of them died.
The three independent witnesses did not support the prosecution, describing it as false. Moreover, where the seized contraband was kept and in whose custody in the police station, who and how it was taken to FSL for examination, which seal was put on the packets and other lacunae as observed by the court led to the acquittal of the lone surviving accused. The seriousness with which such cases dealing with distribution of the ‘poison’ can be seen that despite repeated instructions from the court, the investigating officer even did not present himself as witness in the court.
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