{"id":300426,"date":"2022-12-10T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-10T10:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=300426"},"modified":"2022-12-10T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2022-12-10T10:34:15","slug":"lahore-court-acquits-rana-sanaullah-in-narcotics-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/lahore-court-acquits-rana-sanaullah-in-narcotics-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Lahore court acquits Rana Sanaullah in narcotics case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A special court in Lahore acquitted on Saturday Interior Minister Rana Sanullah in a narcotics case filed against him during the PTI government\u2019s tenure.<\/p>\n<p>The minister was arrested in July 2019 under the previous government by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF). It had claimed to have recovered 15kg of heroin from his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>During the hearing today, ANF Assistant Director Imtiaz Ahmed and Inspector Ehsaan Azam dismissed the charges against Sanaullah, declaring them \u201cwrong\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In their affidavits submitted in court, copies of which are available with Dawn.com, the officials that they were present at the Ravi Toll Plaza on July 1, 2019, when Sanaullah was arrested.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe never saw any sort of drugs being recovered from the scene,\u201d they stated.<\/p>\n<p>Subsequently, the court acquitted the interior minister and all the other people named in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special court in Lahore acquitted on Saturday Interior Minister Rana Sanullah in a narcotics case filed against him during the PTI government\u2019s tenure. The minister was arrested in July 2019 under the previous government by the Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF). It had claimed to have recovered 15kg of heroin from his vehicle. 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