PESHAWAR, Feb 20: The Peshawar High Court on Wednesday acquitted a person who was sentenced to 25 years’ rigorous imprisonment by a trial court for killing his wife.

A division bench comprising Justice Tariq Pervaiz and Justice Qaim Jan Khan observed that the trial court had overlooked various points while convicting the man.

Nazir Muhammad was arrested by officials of Lund Khwar police station, Takhtbhai tehsil, Mardan, on Aug 15, 1996. Police claimed that he had pushed his wife into a well which resulted in her death.

The man was convicted by additional district and sessions judge Takhtbhai on March 21, 2000. Advocate Khalid Khan appeared for the him before the bench and argued that it was a case of no witness and the accused had been falsely implicated in it.

CONVICTION UPHELD: Dismissing a criminal appeal, a two-member bench of the high court on Wednesday upheld the sentence of 25 years’ imprisonment awarded to a drug pusher by the Special Anti-Narcotics Court.

Sartaj, a resident of Swabi, was arrested by the Anti-Narcotics Force on July 23, 2000, here and from his possession 80kgs of charas was seized.

The Special Judge Anti-Smuggling, Ashraf Khan, convicted him and sentenced him to 25 years’ rigorous imprisonment. He was convicted under the Control of Narcotics Substance Act, 1997.