Tag: Jail

KARACHI - Ecstatic, the victorious green shirts felt like dishing out their hearts to their blue-shirted rivals after winning the match... the scenes inside the Karachi Central Prison were wishful thinking for those who had gunned for Pakistan to win the cricket world cup semi-final clash against India on March 30.
These celebrations - after Saturday's match between Pakistani and Indian teams - were a part of a cricket world cup going on inside the city's largest prison with

Srinagar - More than 50 innocent Kashmiris are languishing in Tihar Jail who have been implicated by Indian police in false cases.
Ghulam Mohiudeen Dar, a recently released Kashmiri from Tihar Jail, talking to the newsmen in Srinagar, said that the Indian police was victimizing the people of occupied Kashmir.
"I was a dealer of Gulnar tea and used to go to Delhi on business frequently. On one such trip on June 15, 2005, the Delhi Police unlawfully arrested me by implicating

ISLAMABAD - President Asif Ali Zardari remitted the remaining jail sentence of Indian convict Gopal Das detained in jail for the past 27 years on humanitarian grounds.
Spokesperson to the President Farhatullah Babar said that the remission was granted on the advice of the prime minister to honour the appeal of the Supreme Court of India to the Government of Pakistan.
He said that several Indian newspapers recently reported that in an unusual step the Supreme Court of India

KARACHI - The Federal Anti-Corruption Court issued a show-cause notice on Friday to the superintendent of the Karachi Central Jail for failing to bring former National Insurance Company Limited (NICL) chairman Ayaz Khan Niazi, who has been accused for financial scam, to the court.
The prison official was ordered to submit an explanation for failing to comply with the court's order, whereas the jail superintendent was also issued directives for ensuring that the main accused,

LHAORE - Mehmood, 45, a prisoner at Camp Jail died in jail on Wednesday under circumstances yet to be established. Mehmood was a resident of Pakpattan. Police were said to have arrested him over a dacoity case. Mehmood's heirs alleged Camp Jail police officials tortured him to death. The body was shifted to the city morgue for autopsy.
Burnt: Ifran, 3, admitted to Mayo Hospital, expired from serious burn injuries sustained in a fire at his house in Shafiqabad on Wednesday.

KARACHI - The Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) police arrested two impostors and brought them before a judicial magistrate who sent them to jail until March 30.
Muhammad Ali alias Manan and his accomplice Ishtiaq had reportedly been selling illegal electricity connections in Orangi Town by pretending to be KESC employees. The KESC police arrested the impostors on Wednesday while they were tampering with the meter of a customer who was working in collaboration with KESC's

KARACHI - Sindh High Court (SHC) Chief Justice Musheer Alam on Thursday directed District and Sessions Judge Fahim Ahmed Siddiqui to conduct a detailed inquiry into the Hyderabad Central Prison incident.
Alam also directed the authorities concerned for the proper treatment of the prisoners injured in the mayhem that left at least seven prisoners dead and more than seventy seriously wounded. Taking notice of the incident, the SHC chief justice had directed the Hyderabad district

LAHORE - Lawyer for two Pakistan men shot dead by Raymond Davis on January 27, on Thursday requested Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) to register a case against the superintendent, deputy superintendent and other staff of the Central Jail Kot Lakhpat.
Asad Manzoor Butt, lawyer for the two victims, approached CCPO Muhammad Aslam Tarin and filed a written complaint in this regard for legal action. Butt demanded stern action against jail officials, alleging they had

MINGAWARA - Notorious militant, Noorani Gul, was awarded 120 years of rigorous life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1 million by an Anti Terrorism Court on Wednesday. Gul, son of Ameer Abbass from Matta, was charged for slaughtering of an employee of education department namely Mohammad Iqbal son of Abdul Sadiq in 2009. He was apprehended during military action. staff report

HYDERABAD - At least seven prisoners were killed while 30 people, including policemen, injured when the inmates at the Central jail Hyderabad clashed with the prison's administration on Tuesday. The violence started after police launched an operation to recover arms, mobile phones and drugs from the prisoners.
The prisoners resisted the move by started rioting and climbed onto the rooftops of the barracks besides setting their belongings on fire. Officials said six TT pistols and

PESHAWAR - A US national, said to be a former security contractor, arrested under the Foreigners Act from Peshawar on Friday was sent to prison on a judicial remand by a local court on Saturday. Erin Mark De Heaven, was arrested under Section 14 of the Foreign Act by the security personnel from outside a fast food restaurant on University Road.
After hearing the prosecution, the judge sent De Heaven on a judicial remand to Central Jail Peshawar. Prison authorities claimed of

LOS ANGELES - A judge warned troubled US starlet Lindsay Lohan on Wednesday that she faces jail, as she appeared in court again over the theft of a $2,500 necklace from a Los Angeles jewellery store. Judge Keith Schwarz told the 24-year-old that she would be sent to jail if she pleads guilty under a deal offered by prosecutors, connected with an earlier probation violation.
"This case does involve jail time -- period," he said. "If you plead in front of me -- if this case

LAHORE - The Punjab Home Department has requested the Defence Ministry to declare Kot Lakhpat Central Jail - where United States (US) national Raymond Davis is being kept on judicial remand - and two kilometres of surrounding area a 'no-fly zone', sources told Pakistan Today on Wednesday.
Sources said that an anti-aircraft gun had been installed at the prison and security had been increased significantly. They said that the Home Department had made the request because of fears

PESHAWAR - An accountability court on Wednesday sentenced a senior serving police officer and three customs officials to seven-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 2 million to each. Dilawar Bangash, currently Dera Ismail Khan DPO, and three customs officials, Shah Nawaz, Rehmat and Munawar Khan, were convicted in a National Accountability Bureau reference on the charges of misappropriation of Rs 6.3 million.
The accountability court of Syed Afsar Shah, after hearing arguments,

LAHORE - A prisoner detained in the Camp Jail died mysteriously on Tuesday. The doctors at the Jinnah Hospital say that he died of cardiac arrest. Muhammad Fayaz (39), a Shadbagh resident, was sent to the Camp Jail on charges of owing illegal drugs some months ago.
Yesterday, Fayaz fell unconscious and was shifted to the Jinnah Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Fayaz's relatives were informed by the police and later the body was given to its heirs after the autopsy.