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JHELUM: An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday fined Rs 100,000 to a local leader of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) from Jhelum in a defamation suit.
The additional district and sessions judge Sohawa, while announcing the verdict, fined PTI leader Chaudhry Saqlain Rs100,000, and a six-month prison term in case of non-payment of fine.
Saqlain had been a PTI candidate in the election for National Assembly seat NA-62.Chaudhry Tariq, a trader by profession, had filed the defamation suit against the PTI leader. He had contended that Chaudhry Saqlain levelled unfounded allegations against him in a local newspaper.
Saqlain, while admitting his offence, paid the fine.
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