Karachi: A “compromise” agreement between the parties was presented in court on Thursday, and a Karachi district and sessions court found Natasha Danish not guilty of the murder charge that was brought against her in connection with the August road accident in Karsaz.
On August 19, a Danish driving a fast Toyota Land Cruiser collided with three motorcycles and another vehicle on Karsaz Road, killing Imran Arif, 60, and his daughter Amna, 22, and injuring three others. Manslaughter charges were filed against the driver after his arrest.
A sessions court granted Danish bail on September 6 in the murder case.
She applied to the Sindh High Court, which granted her bail in exchange for surety bonds worth Rs1 million after her bail pleas in a separate drug case were rejected twice by lower courts.
Danish’s attorney, Advocate Amir Mansoob Qureshi, told Dawn.com today that the sessions court acquitted his client “on the basis of compromise” between the two parties.
At a Karachi court, Amir Mansoob Qureshi talks to reporters. via Sumair Abdullah: “The court has accepted the compromise application and acquitted Natasha from this case” in a statement to reporters at the court.
He stated, expressing hope for Danish’s acquittal in the drug case, ” In the drug case, there wouldn’t be a predicate offense either if the murder case didn’t have a primary offense.
The suspect did not attend today’s hearing.
After the Karsaz Road accident on August 19 that resulted in the deaths of a father and his daughter, Danish was arrested immediately and booked on charges of manslaughter.
Danish’s medical report, which was conducted at the request of the victims’ counsel, revealed that she was driving while under the influence of crystal meth, a narcotic, according to Sindh IG of Police Ghulam Nabi Memon later.
As a result, the driver was the subject of a separate first information report (FIR) filed by the police under Section 11 (drinking liable to tazir) of the 1979 Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order (PEHO).
After the victims’ families pardoned them “without any blood money,” a sessions court granted the suspect bail on September 6.
However, Danish’s bail pleas in the drug case had been rejected by a judicial magistrate and a sessions court separately.
She had pointed out to Judicial Magistrate (East) Muhammad Raza Ansari that her attorney’s claim that the suspect’s blood and urine samples had been altered was false. State prosecutor Syed Khursheed Abbas Bukhari had opposed the bail application in the sessions court, claiming that the final charge sheet had not yet been presented to the court.
Danish had then approached the SHC through her attorney, and Justice Muhammad Karim Khan Agha granted her bail after hearing both sides’ arguments.
The Karachi police had presented Danish with a charge sheet in the same case to the court of a judicial magistrate two days prior to the SHC hearing.
