The Lahore High Court (LHC) has granted bail to former Punjab law minister Rana Sanaullah in a narcotics case lodged after Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) allegedly recovered drugs from his vehicle, Dunya News reported.
According to the details, LHC has directed the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader to submit two surety bonds worth Rs1 million each.
Rana Sanaullah on November 20 had submitted a bail plea in LHC for second time, stating that he was arrested in a false case of drugs smuggling as he used to criticize the government.
He adopted a stance that he was earlier booked for smuggling of 21 kilograms heroin in the FIR [First Information Report], while later the weight of the captured contraband was declared 15 kilograms.
Rana had also submitted a bail petition on November 10, which stated that the prosecution had failed to present any independent witness of the alleged recovery of the drugs, adding that the video evidence presented before the trial court was contradictory to the story narrated in the FIR.
An anti-narcotics court had on December 11 extended judicial remand of Sanaullah till January 4, 2020, in the heroin smuggling case.
On July 1, he was arrested by the ANF after the discovery of a large stash of drugs in his vehicle from near the Sukheke area in Punjab. The former law minister was arrested while travelling with his guards to a meeting from Faisalabad to Lahore.
The case against him was filed in accordance with the Control of Narcotics Substances Act, 1997.
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