The counsel for the petitioner said the convict was arrested in 2003, but he was not given any concession in jail term under the law. PHOTO: EXPRESS
The petitioner, who is the mother of the convict, said the prisons inspector general did not comply with a court order wherein the judge had directed the jail authorities to recalculate convict’s sentence on the basis of remissions granted to him by the government and announce the date for his release.
Advocate Mujahid Waseem argued on behalf of the petitioner that the prisons inspector general committed the contempt of court by ignoring the court order. He said that action should be taken against him under the contempt of court law.
Justice Shahid Hameed Dar issued a notice to the respondent and directed him to submit his reply within two weeks.
Petitioner Saira Khan contended that her son Adnan Khan had completed his jail term awarded by a military court, but jail authorities were not releasing him. Her counsel said the military court had sentenced Adnan to 15 years in jail. He said the military court had not given him relief under Section 382-B of the Criminal Procedures Code (CrPC).
Section 382-B says that length of the imprisonment of an accused in respect of any offence shall be treated as reduced by the period during which he had been in custody for an offence, he said.
The counsel for the petitioner said the convict was arrested in 2003, but he was not given any concession in jail term under the law. He said that a single bench of the high court in Rawalpindi had dismissed a petition of the convict to this effect, but a division bench had later accepted his intra court appeal and directed the jail authorities to give him benefit of the Section 382-B of the CrPC.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 17th, 2016.
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