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  • IHC to hear PTI petition about Imran Khan’s transfer to Adiala Jail

    The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear a petition asking that former Prime Minister Imran Khan be transferred from Attock Jail to Adiala Jail after the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman was sentenced to three years incarceration in the Tosha Khana case.

    IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq will hear the petition today. Earlier, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) had filed a petition in the IHC to transfer Imran Khan from Attock Jail to Adiala Jail to get A-class facilities.

    “Keeping in view the petitioner’s social and political status, his education, and his being accustomed to a better living style, the Petitioner was entitled to A-Class facilities in terms of Rule 243 read with Rule 248 of the Pakistan Prison Rules,” the petition read.

    It is also requested in the plea that personal physicians and family members be allowed to meet him.

    Imran Khan’s lawyer said on Monday, after meeting his client in jail, that Imran Khan has been kept in an unhygienic and suffocating environment. However, he stressed that Khan’s morale was high.

  • No shower in washroom aur kamra bhe woh jahan Sazai-e-maut kay qaidiun ko rakha jata hai: Imran Khan’s lawyer reveals details of his cell

    No shower in washroom aur kamra bhe woh jahan Sazai-e-maut kay qaidiun ko rakha jata hai: Imran Khan’s lawyer reveals details of his cell

    Naeem Panjutha, former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s lawyer, has revealed on Monday details of the conditions in which his client is being incarcerated.

    After meeting Khan in Attock district jail, the lawyer said that the behaviour of the jail administration was not satisfactory. He said that Imran Khan is living in a very small jail cell, while the washroom has no shower.

    Naeem Panjutha stated that Imran Khan has been kept in a very unhygienic and suffocating environment. However, Imran Khan was happy with PTI’s victory in Peshawar against JUI-F, the lawyer narrated.

    “Imran Khan’s morale was high,” Panjutha told media personnel outside the jail.

    “If they keep me in more severe condition than this, I’m ready for this too,” Khan reportedly told his lawyer.

    Imran Khan gave a message to the nation from the Jail through his lawyer: “I will not bow down”.

    According to PTI, the police ransacked and tortured the staff in Bani Gala while attempting to arrest Imran Khan. It is also mentioned by the PTI that while arresting Imran Khan, the policeman said “Chal Saday Nal” and “Kapra Pao Aeday mun ty”.

  • PTI wants Imran Khan to be transferred to Adiala Jail for A-class facilities

    PTI wants Imran Khan to be transferred to Adiala Jail for A-class facilities

    Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) has filed an appeal with the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday, asking that party Chairman Imran Khan be transferred to Adiala Jail for A-class facilities.

    According to the petition, “Since childhood, the petitioner is from an affluent family, and later, due to his education, habits, and social and political status in the society, has got accustomed to a better mode of life. He is a graduate of Oxford University, UK, and the captain of Pakistan national Cricket”.

    After a district and sessions court found Imran guilty in the Tosha Khana case on August 5, he was arrested on the same day and taken to Attock Jail.

    Judge Humayun Dilawar sentenced Imran Khan to three years imprisonment and fined him one lac rupees. According to the judgement, “Charges of misdeclaration of assets have been proven against the PTI chairman”.

    Imran Khan’s lawyer, Naeem Haider Panjotha, filed a petition today to transfer Imran Khan to Adiala Jail. It was also mentioned in the appeal that Imran Khan is living in a “small cell of 9 x 11 feet” in Attock Jail.

    A-class prisoners get a 21-inch television, a table and two chairs, a mattress, personal bedding and clothing, while all meals are provided for. However , the prisoner needs to pay for all this. The government is only responsible for giving them security in a high-security ward.

    A-class inmates are kept separate from ordinary prisoners but it is not the same in the case of B-class prisoners.

    Attock district jail has multiple facilities for the prisoners. Prisoners can play Luddo and Carrom board. There is a rehabilitation center in the jail.
    One medical officer and a women medical officer are also available for medical treatment, if needed.

  • Horrifying report reveals incidents of rape, sexual abuse in Attock Jail

    Horrifying report reveals incidents of rape, sexual abuse in Attock Jail

    The Provincial Intelligence Centre (PIC) has in a report accused several staff members at the Attock district jail of raping and harassing female visitors and prisoners.

    On September 30, PIC filed the report to Inspector General of Prisons, Mirza Shahid Saleem Baig, after conducting a covert investigation into the operations of the district jail.

    “A girl who visits the jail to see one of the inmates supplies drugs to the prisoners. A pack of charas worth Rs500 outside is sold for Rs3,000 to Rs3,500 inside the prison,” the report has stated.

    “Powerful mafias of drug peddlers have deep roots inside the jail with the support of jail administration and are making unchecked profit by selling contraband. And they also pay due share to the jail management,” the report said, adding that influential visitors are frequently given permission to meet face-to-face in the DSP’s (Deputy Superintendent of Police) room in exchange for a bribe of up to Rs. 10,000. Additionally, after paying bribes, inmates are permitted to order food from outside.

    The report recommended that jail workers who had been found guilty of breaking the rules of the jail manual or of engaging in acts of sexual harassment, corruption, or torture be disciplined.

    The damning report also suggested that female staff members should be the only ones in charge of handling female visitors to the jail in order to protect their privacy and dignity.

    “This is quite disturbing and can lead to a scandal that will reflect poorly on the Punjab administration,” read the report.
    PIC has ordered a high-level investigation into this matter.