KARACHI – Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leader Sharjeel Inam Memon gets theclean chit
He was allegedly involved in a case regarding the discovery of alcoholbottles in his hospital room a day earlier.
Memon and police officers on duty at the hospital have also been declaredas innocent, according to the First Information Report (FIR).
On the other hand, charges have instead been brought against one of the twomen arrested from the former minister’s room.
Furthermore, the case has been registered under the name of the officer onduty at the time of the incident, Assistant Superintendent (AS) MujahidKhan.
A day earlier, the imprisoned PPP Member of Provincial Assembly (MPA)Memon, who was at Karachi’s Ziauddin Hospital on the pretext of illness,had been found in possession of “liquor bottles and drugs” after ChiefJustice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar paid a surprise visit to thehospital he was being treated in.
“When Sharjeel Memon was asked about the liquor, he said they were nothis,” Justice Nisar had said, relating his surprise early-morning visitbefore hearing cases at the Supreme Court’s (SC) Karachi registry.