Access to client: Sarabjit’s counsel files petition

Claims that he had been meeting his client in jail for the last three years.

Advocate Awais Sheikh, the counsel for Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who is being held at Kot Lakhpat Jail, has filed a petition before the Lahore High Court asking the home secretary and IG prisons to allow him to meet with his client. He submitted the petition on Tuesday, and claimed that he had been meeting his client in jail for the last three years. He added that on September 1, he submitted an application for meeting with his client which was rejected on the grounds that ‘rules do not allow meeting with the counsel’. He said that the rejection of his application is illegal. He said he has met his client’s family in India and urgently needed to meet him to convey their messages and to deliver certain edible goods as well as to get a signature on a fresh mercy petition to be submitted to the president of Pakistan.

Published in The Express Tribune, September 26^th, 2012.