Islamabad police reach Attok jail to shift PTI chairman

ISLAMABAD: Islamabad police on Tuesday reached Attock jail to shift Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman to Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, following the orders of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).

Sources said that a heavy contigent of Islamabad police reached Attock jail to shift the former prime minister to Adiala jail Rawalpindi.

According to sources, a convoy of 13 vehicles, including police vans, has reached Adiala Jail. The convoy also includes an ambulance with medical staff and doctors.

IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq on Monday ordered the authorities to transfer the PTI chief from Attock jail to Adiala jail, where all under trial accused of Islamabad are kept.

The court also reserved its verdict on a petition seeking an open hearing of the PTI chief’s bail plea in a cipher case.

The PTI chief is facing charges of corruption, misuse of authority in several cases, including the Toshakhana case, the cipher case and the marriage case.

He was arrested on August 5 and sentenced to three years in prison by an accountability court in the Toshakhana case, but the IHC later suspended the sentence.

The PTI chief’s lawyer Barrister Salman Safdar said that his client deserved better facilities in jail as he was a former prime minister and an educated person.

He also requested the court to issue a written order regarding his shifting to Adiala jail.

The PTI chief is also expected to appear before a civil court on October 2 in a case pertaining to his marriage with Bushra Bibi, which was allegedly solemnized against the Sharia law.

The court had earlier directed the authorities to produce him before it, but the Attock jail administration cited security issues for not doing so.