Imran Khan stored in C-class jail cell, his lawyer says

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan’s lawyer claimed on Monday that the PTI chief has been stored in distressing situations and offered “C-class” jail services at Attock jail, in Pakistan Punjab.

Khan was pronounced responsible and sentenced to 3 years in jail by an Islamabad-based trial court docket on August 5 in a graft case associated to concealing particulars of state presents. Quickly after the decision, the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief was arrested by the police from his residence in Lahore.
The jail administration didn’t enable his attorneys and occasion colleagues to satisfy him for 2 days. Nonetheless, on Monday afternoon, Naeem Haider Panjotha, Imran’s spokesperson on authorized issues, was allowed to satisfy him.

Earlier on Monday, Panjotha filed a petition within the Islamabad excessive court docket requesting it to declare Imran’s detention in Attock Jail as “unlawful”. The petition additionally requested for “higher class/A-class” jail services to be offered to the PTI chief. It urged that Imran be allowed to frequently meet his authorized staff, members of the family, his private physician, Dr Faisal Sultan, and political aides, lists for which had been submitted to the court docket.
Addressing a press convention after his assembly with Imran, which lasted for an hour and 45 minutes, Panjotha mentioned the PTI chief was being stored in a small C-class cell measuring 9 x 11 toes. The cell, in keeping with Khan’s counsel, has an open washroom, with none doorways or partitions, and rainwater entered it final night time. Khan, the lawyer continued, additionally informed him concerning the difficulties he confronted providing prayers due to the small house. “However regardless of all this, his morale may be very excessive,” Panjotha mentioned. “‘The jail has mosquitoes within the morning and ants within the night,” Panjotha quoted Imran as saying.
About meals, Panjotha mentioned, Khan informed him he was being given the same old“daal (lentils)” and“saag (spinach)”, however he had no concern with it.
“Khan requested me to inform the media that he won’t ever settle for slavery, even when they stored him in a D-class jail,” Panjotha mentioned, including that the PTI chief additionally mentioned that his home was attacked for the third time on Saturday and makes an attempt had been made to interrupt down the door of his bed room.
Imran, in keeping with Panjotha, directed the occasion’s authorized staff to take authorized motion in opposition to those that “attacked” Zaman Park and “kidnapped” him.
The petition filed earlier within the day within the HC acknowledged that “it’s but to be ascertained” beneath which legislation the PTI chief had been detained at Attock Jail when the arrest warrant issued by the trial court docket meant for him to be stored at Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi.
The petition mentioned that the previous PM had been “confined in a grimy room which has historically been reserved for terrorists”.
“Respondents have been treating Imran like a prison and have lodged him in a small and squeezed barrack” as a result of “mala fide causes and beneath the strain of the political regime”, it mentioned.
The plea argued that Imran was “entitled to A-class services” contemplating his “social and political standing, his training and his being accustomed to a greater residing model”.