Dawn Court reporter
ISLAMABAD: Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq, while hearing the request of former Prime Minister Imran Khan to meet his lawyers in jail in Islamabad High Court, remarked that we are unable to understand that online meetings are legal in one jail but in another. How illegal? According to Dawn TV, Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan of Islamabad High Court heard the case, during the hearing, the Superintendent of Adiala Jail refused to meet the PTI founder online.
In his reply, the superintendent said that online meetings are not allowed in the jail rules, so they cannot be met.
On this, the court found out that it was in the media that Chief Minister Punjab Maryam Nawaz announced online meetings in Kot Lakhpat Jail, the Chief Minister proudly said that it is the first jail in Asia where this facility is being provided, if the jail If there is no permission in the rules, how did the illegal work start in Kot Lakhpat Jail? On this, Superintendent Adiala Jail said that the Jail Rules will have to be amended and has written to the Punjab Government for this.
On this, Justice Sardar Ijaz Ishaq inquired what the jail authorities were saying in their reply that the action of the Chief Minister of Punjab was illegal. You are saying that the court order cannot be implemented, there is a need for amendment.
Later, the public prosecutor requested to give us some time to take further instructions. On this, the court remarked that there is no need to take instructions, the superintendent of the jail is saying that the rules do not allow it, the same government in one jail. Banned from online meetings without amendment, while Fakhria herself did the same in the second. Judicial assistant Zainab Janjua informed the court that the position of the Superintendent of Adiala Jail should not conflict with the position of the Punjab government, he is his subordinate officer.
PTI’s lawyer Sherat Afzal Marwat said that the declaration of pride was made in Kot Lakhpat, but here they are playing hide and seek from the court. Justice Sardar Ejaz Ishaq Khan said that we have to settle this point soon, there is not much time. , the question now is whether political discussion can be held in jail meetings or not, if we conclude that political discussion can be held, then we have to amend, and let this matter be resolved, online meeting is not stopped now. Maybe, if they say they can’t do it online, the whole world will laugh.
Unable to understand, how is online dating legal in one prison, and illegal in another. Court
