Mohammad Rasool

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Charge:	"Explosives & Drug Offense (possessing, providing, or making explosives, and possessing, providing, or making illegal drugs)"
Sentence:	14 years
Years Imprisoned:	2.58
Year Crime:	2012
Year Convicted:	2014
Year Cleared:	2015
U.S. State or Country of Crime:	Pakistan
County or Region of Crime:	Gujarat
City of Crime:	Kalupur
Result:	Judicially Exonerated Released
Summary of Case:	"Mohammad Rasool and Mohammad Irfan were codefendants wrongly convicted in March 2014 of explosives and drug charges in Kalupur, Pakistan. Rasool and Irfan were in a car stopped by Pakistani police on July 4, 2012, in which the police arrested them claiming they found explosives and 20kg of charas (Hashish). Rasool and Irfan were both sentenced to 14 years in prison. They appealed. On January 27, 2015 the Peshawar High Court acquitted Rasool and Irfan based on evidence the material wasn't explosive that was seized by the police, and that their vehicle had no secret cavity where the police testified at trial they found the drugs."
Conviction Caused By:	Police falsely testified they seized explosive materials and their accounts of the drugs they allegedly seized didn't match the vehicle the defendants were in.
Innocence Proved By:	"On January 27, 2015 the Peshawar High Court acquitted Rasool and Irfan based on evidence the material wasn't explosive that was seized by the police, and that their vehicle had no secret cavity where the police testified at trial they found the drugs."
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Sex:	Male
Skin/Ethnicity:	Other
Information Source 1:	"Convictions in terrorism, drug case set aside, By Bureau Report, Dawn.com, January 28, 2015"
Information Location 1:	http://www.dawn.com/news/1159949/convictions-in-terrorism-drug-case-set-aside
Information Source 2:	"2 from Kashmir held with 20kg charas, By TNN, The Times of India (Ahmedabad, India), November 18, 2012"
Information Location 2:	http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/2-from-Kashmir-held-with-20kg-charas/articleshow/17260150.cms
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Mohammad Rasool

Charge:

"Explosives & Drug Offense (possessing, providing, or making explosives, and possessing, providing, or making illegal drugs)"

Sentence:

14 years

Years Imprisoned:

2.58

Year Crime:

2012

Year Convicted:

2014

Year Cleared:

2015

U.S. State or Country of Crime:

Pakistan

County or Region of Crime:

Gujarat

City of Crime:

Kalupur

Result:

Judicially Exonerated Released

Summary of Case:

Conviction Caused By:

Police falsely testified they seized explosive materials and their accounts of the drugs they allegedly seized didn't match the vehicle the defendants were in.

Innocence Proved By:

"On January 27, 2015 the Peshawar High Court acquitted Rasool and Irfan based on evidence the material wasn't explosive that was seized by the police, and that their vehicle had no secret cavity where the police testified at trial they found the drugs."

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Was Perpetrator Identified?

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Sex:

Male

Skin/Ethnicity:

Other

Information Source 1:

"Convictions in terrorism, drug case set aside, By Bureau Report, Dawn.com, January 28, 2015"

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http://www.dawn.com/news/1159949/convictions-in-terrorism-drug-case-set-aside

Information Source 2:

"2 from Kashmir held with 20kg charas, By TNN, The Times of India (Ahmedabad, India), November 18, 2012"

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http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/ahmedabad/2-from-Kashmir-held-with-20kg-charas/articleshow/17260150.cms

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