Anmol Pinky | Pakistan

KARACHI: A court on Saturday granted police more time to file the final charge sheet against alleged cocaine dealer Anmol Pinky and other suspects in a drug peddling case. At the last hearing, an investigating officer had filed an interim investigation report against prime suspect Pinky and others in a drug case lodged at Garden police station, while the court had sought the final report from police on June 20. When a judicial magistrate (South) took up the matter for hearing on Saturday, the IO could not file the final charge sheet and requested more time on the grounds that forensic and other reports were still awaited. While adjourning the hearing till June 27, the court allowed further time and directed the IO to file the final investigation report by the next hearing. The magistrate also reserved orders till the next hearing on applications seeking permission to record the voice samples of the suspects in the drug case and to discharge the names of two suspects from the case. The IO had filed an applicat...

KARACHI: While police on Saturday managed to secure a further six-day remand of Anmol Pinky in two cases, the suspected drug baroness contested the police’s claim that she was arrested on May 12 in Karachi, saying she had actually been picked up 22 days earlier in Lahore and was being pressured to give “false statements involving Banigala” — an Islamabad area known as the residence of former prime minister and incarcerated PTI founder Imran Khan. On Saturday, police produced the suspect, Pinky, before various courts for remand. The screengrab shows a police officer trying to cover Pinky’s face with a chador while others hold her in court. In an intense show of resistance and scuffle with policewomen and officials escorting her, Pinky, whose face was covered with a chador, shouted while unmasking her face and alleged that law-enforcement authorities had forced statements from her. “They forced me to give false statements to say that I used to deliver items to a man in Banigala. These people picked me up from L...