LAHORE: An accountability court docket on Saturday directed the superintendent of Kot Lakhpat central jail to supply home-cooked meals, a mattress and all different entitled services below the legislation to Chief of Opposition in Punjab Meeting Hamza Shehbaz, an under-trial prisoner in a cash laundering and unlawful belongings reference.
Hamza’s counsel Amjad Pervez filed an utility earlier than the court docket pleading that correct meals and different services had been required to be supplied to the suspect in view of his compromised well being situation since he lately recovered from Covid-19 pandemic.
The counsel referred to rule 375 of the Pakistan Prisoner Guidelines 1978, which permitted an under-trial prisoner to buy or obtain from personal supply, meals, clothes, bedding and different necessaries topic to sure circumstances.
Presiding Decide Jawadul Hassan disposed of the applying with a course to the jail superintendent to proceed strictly in accordance with the legislation and prisons guidelines and supply the home-cooked reasonable meals, a mattress and services to the suspect he was entitled to.
Hamza has been languishing behind bars since his arrest by the NAB on June 11, 2019, within the references of Ramzan Sugar Mills and the cash laundering. The Lahore Excessive Court docket later granted him post-arrest bail within the sugar mills case, nevertheless, denied him bail within the different reference on Feb 11, 2020.
His father, Shehbaz Sharif, has additionally been despatched on judicial remand by the court docket within the money-laundering reference.
Revealed in Daybreak, October 25th, 2020
