ISLAMABAD, Sep 25 (NNI): Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court has ordered to shift former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan to Adiala Jail from Attock Prison.
Chief Justice Aamer Farooq expressed these remarks on Monday while hearing a petition filed by PTI Chairman Imran Khan seeking the transfer of his trial in the cipher case from Attock Jail to Adiala Prison.
During the previous hearing, the court fixed the case for today after reserving its verdict.
At the outset of the case proceedings today, Chief Justice Farooq remarked that the undertrial prisoners of Islamabad are kept in Adiala Jail. He said the PTI chairman was transferred to Attock Jail before his sentence (in Toshakhana case) was suspended. But now Imran’s sentence in the case has been suspended and he is an undertrial prisoner now, the judge observed.
“According to law, the undertrial prisoners of Islamabad are kept in Adiala Jail. Transfer him to Adiala Prison,” the chief justice ordered, inquiring further which class was given to the former premier. He said that the court was told that the A and B classes had been abolished in the jail facility.
The additional attorney general informed the court that now common but better classes were there in jail.
The chief justice remarked that the PTI chairman deserved a better class as he was the former prime minister of the country. He said that Imran Khan was an educated person. He reprimanded the AAG, wondering if the PTI chairman was shifted to Rahim Yar Khan, would the authorities hold his trial in the RYK?
PTI chairman’s lawyer Sher Afzal Marwat requested the court to order for the provision of exercise machines for the PTI chief as he was a sportsman and needed them.
CJ Farooq, however, remarked that the court would not do anything that denied others of their rights. NNI
