Karachi: The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday granted bail to main accused of the Karsaz Traffic accident, Natasha Danish .
The court ordered the accused to submit surety of one million.
While her counsel Farooq H Nayik said that the reconciliation has brokered among the heirs of deceased Imran Arif and his daughter Amna Arif and the accused.
While public prosecutor argued that the suspect was under the influence of drugs at the time of the accident, Naek argued that the medical report was ambiguous as methamphetamine was not found in the blood but only in the urine.
Upon the court inquiring how much methamphetamine was present in the urine sample, the state counsel replied that the medical report did not mention the quantity.
Danish’s lawyer, however, insisted there was a possibility that due to her psychiatric treatment, Natasha was prescribed a medicine that surfaced in the medical report.
While hearing the bail plea today, Justice Muhammad Karim Khan Agha, after hearing arguments from both sides, approved Danish’s post-arrest bail against surety bonds worth Rs1m.
On August 19, a speeding Toyota Land Cruiser, driven by Natasha, hit three motorcycles and another car on Karsaz Road, killing 60-year-old Imran Arif and his 22-year-old daughter Amna, as well as wounding three others. The driver was arrested and booked for manslaughter charges.
The suspect was granted bail in the murder case earlier this month after the victims’ family pardoned them “without any blood money”. However, a judicial magistrate and a sessions court had separately rejected her bail pleas in the drug case.
After the dismissal of her bail twice from the lower judiciary in the drug case, the suspect through her lawyer had approached the SHC.
The police had filed a charge sheet against the driver before the court of a judicial magistrate yesterday.
