Hassan and Hussain Nawaz were implicated in the Avenfield, Flagship, and Al-Azizia corruption cases in 2018 and were declared proclaimed offenders. They lef Pakistan in 2018 and returned on March 12 from a six-year exile after their father secured acquittals in previous corruption cases.
Thunberg and four others were accused of committing a public order offence by refusing to leave the area hosting an oil and gas conference during their protest. During the trial, the judge ruled that the police acted unlawfully and cited "significant deficiencies" in the evidence.
With this development, Nawaz cleared another legal hurdle as he sought to make his political comeback as the next Pakistani premier. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) bench had acquitted Nawaz of the Avenfield case on November 29.
An accountability court in 2018 sentenced Nawaz to 10 years for owning assets beyond known income, with an additional year for non-cooperation with the National Accountability Bureau (NAB). Nawaz was declared a proclaimed offender in 2020 when he left for London on medical grounds.
The court observed that the prosecution failed to prove that the NOS conducted the examination in the school of the accused on any Sunday of 2010 due to which the woman's claim of being raped had not been proved.
Additional District and Sessions Judge (ADJ) Tribhuwan Yadav convicted Lambu Sharma, Chand Miyan, Naeem Miyan, Akhilesh Upadhyaya, Rinku Yadav, Pramod Singh, Shyam Vinay Sharma and Mohammed Wahid in the case.
Former BJP minister Maya Kodnani was one of the key accused in the riot case and was convicted by a special SIT court in August 2012. She was sentenced to 28 years in imprisonment.
Those acquitted in the case on Monday included the prime accused Devendra Gupta who was convicted in the Ajmer Sharif blasts just a year ago.
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