Pakistan
Karsaz case: Accused Natasha granted bail in drugs case
Court ordered the accused to deposit a bond of Rs1 million as bail
Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) granted bail to Natasha, the accused of the Karsaz accident, in the drug case also against the surety bond of Rs1 million.
Sindh High Court Justice Karim Khan Agha heard the case where Farooq H. Naik advocate appeared on behalf of the accused.
During the hearing, the lawyer of the accused, Farooq H. Naik, told the court that in one of our First Information Reports (FIR), the bail application has been approved. In the main FIR of this case, a settlement has been reached between the parties.
In the court, the public prosecutor took the position that Natasha was intoxicated when she was driving the car. On which the accused's lawyer told the court that the medical report is also ambiguous because methamphetamine is not present in the blood but in the urine.
The court inquired from the public prosecutor how much methamphetamine was present in the urine. The public prosecutor replied that the quantity had not been mentioned in the medical report.
During the hearing Farooq H. Naik advocate told the court that Natasha has been receiving treatment from a psychiatrist for years, it is also possible that some medicine has been prescribed which has been mentioned in the medical report.
Justice Karim Khan Agha remarked that it is also a big thing that the victims of this case have reconciled with the accused who is a mother of three children and has been in jail for the last 1.5 months.
Later, the court ordered the accused to deposit a bond of Rs1 million as bail.
It is pertinent to note that a case of prohibited drugs was registered against the accused by the police.
The bail plea of the trial court was rejected by the lawyers of the accused and she has already been granted bail in the car accident case.
On September 17, the SHC issued a notice to the prosecution on the bail application of Natasha.
Notably, the accused was initially detained for driving negligently on Karsaz Road in Karachi and killing 60-year-old Imran Arif and his 22-year-old daughter Amina and injuring three others.
Later, another FIR was registered against her under Section 11 of the (Limitation Ordinance) Act, 1979.
On September 6, the sessions court granted her bail in the traffic accident case after the deceased's relatives 'forgave' her.