A local court in Islamabad on Monday issued arrest warrants for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa chief minister Ali Amin Gandapur in a case involving the improvement of spirits and illegal weapons.
Warrants was issued by legal magistrate Mubashir Hassan Chishti after Gandapur did not appear in court. The court rejected its plea for the exemption from personal appearance and instructed authorities to arrest and produce him during the next hearing.
The court postponed the hearing until July 22.
Earlier Saturday, the Magistrate issued non-accessible arrests for Gandapur and ordered the relevant Station House Manager (SHO) to secure his production.
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During Friday’s procedure, the magistrate noted that the case has been pending for almost eight years. Although the prosecution completed the recording of testimonies in May 2024, Gandapur has not yet submitted his own declaration in accordance with section 342 of the criminal case.
The case dates back to October 2016, when the Islamabad police claimed they had recovered five Kalashnikov rifle, a gun, six magazines, a bulletproof vest, a bottle of alcohol and three tear gas shells from a vehicle belonging to the PTI leader parked outside Bani Gala.
Gandapur has consistently denied the allegations and stated that he traveled with two licensed Kalashnikov rifles and that there was a valid weapons license in the vehicle. As for the alleged spirits recovery, he claimed that the bottle in question actually contained honey, not alcohol.
