QUETTA: A model court in Quetta has acquitted Balochistan’s former lawmaker Majeed Khan Achakzai in a case regarding the death of a traffic warden in a hit-and-run incident in June 2017.
As per details, on Friday, Achakzai appeared before the court as the judge announced the verdict. Judge Dost Muhammad Mandokhail of the court acquitted Majeed Khan Achakzai due to a lack of evidence.
On 29 June 2017, Achakzai was arrested days after a fast-moving vehicle belonging to him, hit and ran over traffic warden Haji Attaullah at Quetta’s GPO Chowk. The warden suffered serious injuries and later succumbed to his at a hospital.
Primarily, police registered a case of the accident against unidentified persons. However, after the CCTV footage of the accident went viral on social media and was repeatedly shown by TV channels, Balochistan police had lodged a manslaughter case against Majeed Khan Achakzai.
However, he was granted bail by an anti-terrorism court (ATC) six months later and had been out of jail since then. After his arrest, terrorism charges were included in the first information report (FIR) lodged against the former lawmaker.
Later, the court in Quetta had ordered the removal of the terrorism charges on his appeal and the case was transferred to a model court.
Achakzai belongs to the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party had confessed to driving the vehicle when the accident took place and also expressed his desire to settle the issue with the victim’s family as per tribal traditions.
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