RAWALPINDI – More than 60 Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) workers,including Hanif Abbasi’s son, have been nominated in cases of ‘hooliganism’during the hearing of ephedrine case against Hanif Abbasi.
Police in FIR number 515 registered at Civil Lines police station havenominated Abbasi’s son, former MPA Ziaullah Shahid, Raja Usman, FaizanShah, Shaukat Abbasi, Abid Abbasi and 50 unidentified persons.
They have been booked on charges of interfering during the caseproceedings, destroying court property and hooliganism, police said.
Hanif Abbasi, sentenced to life imprisonment by a narcotics court onSaturday, was accused of selling as much as 500kg of controlled chemicalephedrine to narcotics smugglers. All requests of Hanif Abbasi aimed atdelaying the ephedrine case by 10 days was rejected by the courts.
The Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) had registered the case against Abbasi andhis accomplices back then in June 2012 under various sections of theControl of Narcotics Substances (CNS) Act.
The anti-narcotics court had indicted Hanif Abbasi and the other accused in2014.