Cypher case hearing to be held at Attock Jail: Ministry
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The Federal Law Ministry has issued a notification stating the cypher case hearing will be held tomorrow at Attock Jail, the 24NewsHD TV channel reported on Monday.
Special Court Judge Abul Hasnat will conduct the hearing. There is no mention of Adiala Jail in the Law Ministry notification.
The Islamabad High Court chief justice passed an order to shift the former prime minister to Adiala Jail.
The court was hearing a petition filed by the PTI chairman Imran Khan for transfer of his trial in the cypher case from Attock Jail to Adiala Prison.
The court order to shift Imran Khan to Adiala Jail has been landed at the Attock Jail.
According to Imran Khan’s lawyer Sher Afzal Khan Marwat, the PTI chairman was transferred to Adiala Jail.
He took to a social media platform to share the story, saying Imran Khan is kept in a room with a washroom and other facilities acceptable to a former prime minister under prison rules.
During the case proceedings, Chief Justice Farooq remarked that the under-trial prisoners of Islamabad were 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 providing his client with work-out 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.