Non-bailable warrant issued against 'sick' convict
Source: Chronicle News Service
Imphal, November 23 2022:
Special Court (ND&PS), Manipur issued a non-bailable warrant of arrest against Md Shafiqur Rahman (40) s/o (L) Md Amu of Lilong Tairenkhong, who was convicted in a case taken up by Sekmai PS under ND&PS Act.
Sekmai police station had registered an FIR against Shafiqur under different sections of ND&PS Act, 1985 in August, 2019 .
He was declared guilty by the same Special Court under Section 21(C) of ND&PS Act on November 11 and fixed the sentence hearing on November 23 .
During the sentence hearing on Wednesday, Shafiqur Rahman did not appear before the court with his counsel intimating the court that he (Shafiqur) was sick and made a prayer to postpone the sentence hearing to November 30 .
However, the counsel did not submit any medical report or document to support the prayer to the Court.
As such, the Court issued a non-bailable warrant of arrest against Md Shafiqur Rahman and ordered him to be present before the court on November 30 .
It further directed the OC of Irilbung PS to put the warrant of arrest into action and forward a copy of the arrest order of the convict to DGP Manipur at the earliest.