Hamza Shehbaz. PHOTO: FILE
LAHORE: Pakistani Muslim League Nawaz (PMLN) chief Hamza Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday filed a post-arrest bail within the Lahore Excessive Court docket (LHC) looking for his launch underneath extraordinary circumstances – the pandemic – which is multiplying at an alarming price within the province.
The opposition chief filed his bail within the belongings past means inquiry pending with the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) by means of his counsel Amjad Pervez.
He implored the courtroom to grant him bail since a well being emergency has been declared all through the nation within the wake of the coronavirus international outbreak.
Beneath these circumstances, he asserted that the unfold of the virus is ‘most relevant’ to prisons.
The confined area of a jail makes it unimaginable to implement the coverage of social distancing that’s being advocated all through the world to forestall the illness’s infliction, he careworn.
The opposition chief contended that prisoners are weak and uncovered to undergo irreparably in case of an outbreak.
“A prison outbreak is likely to present a potentially deadly risk to its inmates.”
He cited media stories, stating {that a} coronavirus affected person had already been confirmed in a Jail in Lahore and there was each probability of the unfold of illness throughout the jail premises.
Revealed in The Categorical Tribune, March 29th, 2020.
