Raja Muhammad Irshad, counsel for the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) and the Military Intelligence (MI) on Monday said his clients were ready to perform the postmortem on four prisoners died in their custody.
Talking to reporters at the Supreme Court after hearing of the case, in which he conceded that four of 11 prisoners of Adiala Jail, picked up by the intelligence personnel for investigation for their alleged role in the October 2009 attacks on the army GHQ and the ISPs Hamza Camp, had died. However, he claimed that they died due to sickness and not torture or poisoning.
He said if the court wanted, his clients were ready to perform autopsy on the deceased to prove that they had died of sickness. The lawyer said if the court was not satisfied with his reply, then law would take its own course. Regarding the release of Raymond Davis, he said the additional sessions judge had released him and compensation was also given to the concerned families in that case.
He said if the court ordered paying compensation to the heirs of the four prisoners died in the agencies’ custody, they would give it to them.
To queries, he said the remaining detained men were admitted to Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar due to sickness. He contended that now these prisoners were not in the custody of intelligence agencies, as they had been handed over to the provincial government. He said the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government was responsible to produce these prisoners.
