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| Lahore court sentences Czech model to 8 years, 8 months in jail for smuggling narcotics |
| 2019-03-21 |
[DAWN] A Lahore Sessions Court on Wednesday sentenced a Czech woman placed in durance vileDrop the rod and step away witcher hands up! last year on charges of attempting to smuggle heroin from Pakistain to Abu Dhabi to eight years and eight months in jail. The trial in the case had been completed on January 9; today, Additional Sessions Judge Shahzad Raza issued the verdict against 21-year-old Tereza Hluskova. Since her arrest on January 10, 2018 Hluskova has told Sherlocks that she came to Pakistain to work as a model, but someone put eight and a half kilogrammes of narcotics into her luggage as she was returning. She was arrested as she tried to board a flight for Abu Dhabi. Czech diplomats had provided her legal assistance. Pak authorities often make arrests of both Paks and foreigners for transporting narcotics. Over the course of her trial, nine witnesses had recorded their statements against the accused. |
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