Fake grade case: Top justice restores Dasti’s conviction
LAHORE: The tip justice has dangling a Lahore High Court’s sequence to discharge MNA Jamshed Dasti in a feign grade case.
On Monday, a three-member peak justice dais headed by Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa upheld this sequence on an interest of a Punjab Prosecution Department while also summoning Dasti to justice for a subsequent hearing.
Additional Prosecutor General Mazhar Shair Awan argued a hearing justice awarded jail tenure to Dasti after going by damning justification opposite him. The LHC multiplication dais announced his judgment as bootleg and systematic his release.
Mazhar claimed a explanation of his feign grade was on record though a high justice abandoned a justification and announced him innocent. Because of his feign degree, Dasti was not authorised to attend in a 2013 ubiquitous elections. The law officer requested a justice to set aside a LHC sequence and revive Dasti’s conviction.
On Apr 4, 2013, a district and sessions decider of Muzaffargarh punished a lawmaker with a three-year jail tenure and a excellent of Rs5,000. He was arrested from a justice and was shifted to jail.
On his interest opposite a conviction, an LHC multiplication dais in Multan systematic his recover on Apr 10, 2013 after environment aside a district court’s order.
Published in The Express Tribune, Dec 27th, 2016.
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