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Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Sharjeel Memon named as a co-accused. In the alleged liquor bottles found in his hospital room in Karachi.
The investigation officer presented the challan of the case to the judicial magistrate of the city courts in Karachi on Tuesday. The details of the document reveal that the three bottles found in the private hospital’s room. That had been declared a sub-jail for the PPP leader by authorities. One of the bottles contained two inches of alcohol present at the time
Reports found evidence from Sharjeel Memon’s room, tampered.
According to the investigation officer, Shakar Din, Mushtaq Ali and Muhammad Jam had confessed to tampering with the evidence. They were, however, released on bail later.
Din also revealed that he threw the alcohol bottles in the dustbin following the raid at the hospital.
The investigation officer further said that CCTV footage has shown that the three accused tampered with the evidence, as well as, giving in false statements to the authorities.
According to the challan, there are a total of 15 witnesses in the case.
The bottles were recovered after Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Justice Mian Saqib Nisar raided the room of Dr Ziauddin Hospital, where Memon was staying earlier this month. The PPP leadership had insisted that the bottles did not contain alcohol but honey and olive oil.
Also see: CJP finds ‘liquor’ bottles in Sharjeel’s hospital room
Earlier on September 7, the jail authorities had submitted a report regarding the alcohol bottles recovered from former Sindh information minister’s room to higher authorities.
Deputy Inspector-General (DIG) Prisons Nasir Aftab said that the report consisted of two parts. The first part was related to manipulation or elimination of evidence from the hospital room, declared as sub-jail by the authorities and negligence of jail staff on duty. The second part dealt with the blood samples of Memon and his medical report.
