RAWALPINDI -UNS: PTI Chairman Imran Khan, who has been serving a three-year sentence in the Toshakhana case at the Attock Jail, was on Tuesday shifted to Rawalpindi’s Adiala jail on directives of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).
According to Adiala jail superintendent Asad Warraich ex-premier had reached the prison. He said security surrounding the Adiala jail were tightened tightened.
Waraich further stated that Imran would be provided facilities according to the jail manual.
Meanwhile, in a post on social media platform X, the PTI posted a video which showed party supporters showering rose petals on the police convoy transporting Imran near the Islamabad Toll Plaza.
The development comes a day after the IHC, while hearing petitions seeking Imran’s transfer to Rawalpindi, observed that under-trial prisoners (UTPs) of all the courts in the federal capital were kept at Adiala and issued directions to shift the PTI chief to that prison.
Earlier today, the court issued its written verdict on Imran’s plea seeking transfer to Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, ordering the same and setting aside all previous notifications and orders under which he was detained at the Attock jail.
The order, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, stated that the current status of the petitioner was an under-trial prisoner. Noting that Islamabad did not have a prison of its own, it said that all such prisoners facing cases in the capital were to be kept at the Adiala Jail.
“To say that it (Adiala Jail) cannot house another prisoner/person, would not reflect the correct position,” the order stated.
It further said, “There is nothing on record to substantiate the plea of the respondents regarding security concerns or lack of adequate security at the Central Jail Adyala, Rawalpindi.”
