ISLAMABAD: Sher Afzal Marwat, the counsel for the PTI chairman Imran Khan, told Chief Justice of Islamabad High Court Justice Amer Farooq that the recent rain and thunderstorm had blown away the temporary roof of Imran Khan’s jail cell and soaked bedding and flies did not allow the former premier even to sleep the entire night.
During the hearing of Imran Khan’s petition for shifting him from Attock to Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi, Sher Afzal argued that the government had kept his client in the Attock jail on the pretext that security was better Adiala Jail. IHC Chief Justice (CJ) Justice Aamer Farooq heard the former prime minister’s petition.
“But truth of the matter is that the former premier has been kept in the Attock Jail only to torture him mentally. On the contrary, security arrangements at Adiala Jail are better; the jail also has a B class in it,” he said, adding, “It is Imran’s right to get B class in the Adiala Jail.”
Advocate Marwat told the court that when Sardar Latif Khosa had met PTI chairman in the jail the other day and he saw that the cell in which Khan had been kept was without rooftop, exposing him to rain and sun.
“Khosa Sahab had further said that Imran Khan could not sleep all night since there was no rooftop and flies following the rain did not allow him sleep,” he informed.
Justice Farooq remarked if these were the conditions in the ‘Better Class’, what kind of agony ordinary prisoners would be going through in other classes of the jail.
Assistant Advocate General (AAG) Punjab told the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that the issues former prime minister and PTI Chairman Imran Khan was confronting in District Jail, Attock had been resolved.
The AAG said that the PTI chairman had been given ‘Better Class’ in the jail since there was no B Class in it.
He claimed that walls of the washroom of the cell in which PTI chairman was spending his prison term had been raised.
“He has also been provided a bed, a chair, a 21-inch television set, and five newspapers in the jail,” he said, adding, “the former prime minister is also served meals of his choice. Furthermore, five doctors have also been arranged for him.”
Imran, he went on to say, was given chicken and mutton cooked in desi ghee twice a week. Later, the case’s hearing was adjourned until September 12.
