Two Sri Lankan men jailed for selling marijuana
Two Sri Lankan men have been sentenced to three years in jail and fined QR200,000 each for selling and consuming illicit drugs.
Local Arabic daily Arrayah reported that a Doha criminal court also ordered the subsequent deportation of the two.
The issue was brought to the attention of the authorities concerned when the first defendant offered to sell some marijuana to an undercover policeman.
The cop was instructed to go ahead with the transaction.
He agreed to meet the accused near Umm Ghuwailina area to buy a packet of marijuana for QR1,000.
The transaction was conducted under the surveillance of a hidden police patrol. A further search of the accused revealed more marijuana.
When interrogated, they denied selling the illicit drugs and claimed it was for personal use only.
Courtesy: gulf-times.com
we want to know passport- because we men have boxes in our brains- where we keep different nationals in various categories. ;)
Correct, Nationality is not a concern for the society, it's the acts.
Why are we interested to know the Passport issue or birth place of a person who has some issues with the police ? .......... We need to learn the lesson from the incident .......... our focus should be on the important points which affect us .........
Don't worry, not all Germans are NAZIs.
Well done to the authorities ...
How will they pay the fine ? Does this mean that they had more than this in the bank ?
shameer: As far as the nationality issue is concerned - I agree , the nationality should be mentioned in all cases..
Sometimes the nationality is mentioned sometimes not. A common reporting platform should be applied by journalists. In every nationality there are black sheep, but exposing certain nationalities & hiding certain nationalities are discriminative & offensive for the innocent who represent the exposed nationality.