Jamshed Dasti sent to jail over fake degree
05 April, 2013
MUZAFFARGARH: District and Session Judge Muzzafargarh has sentenced ex-MNA Jamshed Dasti to three years in prison and Rs. 5000 fine in fake degree case.
District and Sessions Judge Abdur Rehman Niazi, who announced the verdict, also disqualified Jamshed Dasti from running for polls.
After ruling of the court, he was arrested from the court room, where police took him with handcuff, Dasti on occasion, could not control his emotion and cried.
Earlier this week, Dasti vowed to prove authenticity of his academic record over which he had been disqualified by the Supreme Court.
Just yesterday, Dasti announced that he had decided against contesting for the two National Assembly seats as an independent candidate.
His announcement came a few days after he filed his nomination papers from NA 177 and 178 to run against former foreign minister Hina Rabbani Khar as an independent candidate.
Meanwhile, in Peshawar, Former Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Sports Minister, Syed Aqil Shah has been sentenced to one year in prison and three thousand rupees fine in the fake degree case against him.
Shah was sentenced by a District and session judge here on Thursday.
Meanwhile a non-bailable arrest warrant has been issued for former MPA Mir Badhshah Qaisrani and verdicts have been reserved in fake degree cases against Jamshed Dasti, Ali Madad Jatak and Javaid Hasnain Shah.
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