Jailbreak case: Bail applications moved by two prison officials

ATC previously granted bail to suspended jail superintendent, deputy superintendent and assistant superintendent

An Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) issued notices on Thursday to the prosecution and investigation officers to file their comments on bail applications moved by two jail officials booked in the banned outfit militants' jailbreak case.
The ATC-VIII sought the prosecution's comments by July 28 on the bail pleas of suspended Central Jail, Karachi Assistant Superintendent (ASP) Ayaz Salik and deputy superintendent (DSP) Rafiq Channa, who, among others prison staffers, have been booked for their alleged involvement or negligence in the jailbreak incident.

 


On a previous hearing, the same court had granted bail to suspended jail superintendent (SP) Ghulam Murtaza Shaikh, DSP Faheem Anwar Memon and ASP Abdul Rehman Shaikh against a surety of Rs100,000 each.
Two members of the terrorist group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Shaikh Muhammad Imtiaz alias Firoun and Muhammad Ahmed Khan alias Munna, had escaped from the ATCs complex located inside the central jail premises on June 13.

 


Following the report of the incident, Prisons Inspector-General Nusrat Mangan suspended central jail SP, other officials and staffers and had ordered registration of cases against them. The suspended officials were subsequently booked under sections 223 (escape from confinement or custody negligently suffered by public servant), 224 (resistance or obstruction by a person to his law apprehension), 225 (resistance or obstruction to lawful apprehension of another person), 225-A (omission to apprehend or sufferance of escape on part of public servant) and 34 (common intention) of the Pakistan Penal Code at the New Town police station on the directives of the prison authorities. Later, Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act, 1999 was added in the case on the court's direction.