Karachi magistrate acquits Sharjeel Memon in eight-year liquor case
Judicial Magistrate South cleared the Sindh senior minister and five others because the charge was not proved. Lawyers said the bottles held honey and olive oil. The order did not adopt that as the court's finding.
Judicial Magistrate South acquitted Sharjeel Inam Memon and five people charged with him because the allegations were not proved.
Lawyers said the bottles were full of honey and olive oil, citing lab tests and medical papers. The magistrate did not adopt that account as the court's own finding.
On 1 September 2018, Mian Saqib Nisar, then Pakistan's chief justice, said three bottles of liquor were inside a hospital room in Shirin Jinnah Colony that was operating as a sub-jail.
Officers of Boat Basin police booked the matter at Section 4 in the 1979 Hadd prohibition law. Memon was later shifted to Karachi Central Jail.