A local court in Gujranwala convicted a deportee on Thursday, taking the number of sentenced individuals expelled from Libya and Greece over the past two weeks across three districts to 64.
The deportees received 10 to 15 days of imprisonment on average after summary trials in cases filed by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Gujranwala, Gujrat, and Sialkot. Special central judges also imposed fines ranging from Rs25,000 to Rs50,000 after the accused confessed to illegally crossing international borders.
The court treated the time they had already spent in judicial custody as part of their sentences, and authorities released them after they paid the fines.
On Thursday, a special judge in Gujranwala sentenced another man under Section 17(1) of the Emigration Ordinance 1979 and imposed a Rs50,000 fine.
FIA officials said Libyan authorities had detained around 200 illegal Pakistani migrants who were trying to board boats headed for Italy. With help from the International Organization for Migration, Pakistan later received them on special flights about a month ago.
Officials said 90 of those deportees belonged to the Gujranwala region. Courts are still hearing cases against the remaining deportees, while authorities have already received about Rs1.05 million in fines.
FIA Gujranwala Zone Director Muhammad Bin Ashraf said the agency has placed the deportees on the passport control list, which will bar them from travelling abroad for at least five years.
He added that courts in the region have convicted 172 people in illegal immigration and human trafficking cases over the past six months.
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