Fake acquittal orders: Investigation reveals three kidnappers freed from Sukkur jail

Jacobabad police register case against five suspects.

SUKKUR: As investigations of release of three under-trial prisoners from Sukkur jail continue, it has emerged that three more convicted inmates were also freed on forged acquittal orders.

The three freed men - Muhammad Yakoob alias Dodo Junejo, Ghulam Qadir Junejo and Irshad Junejo - were sentenced to 21 years in prison in 2006 in a kidnapping for ransom case. Following the disclosure regarding the release of three more prisoners on fake orders, the Jacobabad police registered a case on Monday night against five suspects, including the clerk of a second additional and sessions judge. The Jacobabad district and sessions judge had ordered the registration of the case.

On the complaint of Saeed Ahmed Soomro, an office superintendent of Jacobabad district and sessions court, the case was registered by the Civil Lines police against Abdul Qayoom Golo among others on the charges of issuing forged release orders by using fake stamps and signatures.



After heavy downpours in September this year, 150 prisoners were shifted from the crumbling Jacobabad jail to Central Jail-I, Sukkur. Among these prisoners were three under-trial prisoners on murder charges - Leemo Rind, Akram Keehar and Noor Muhammad Khoso.

On September 26, the jail authorities received a release order from the Jacobabad second additional sessions judge to bail out Rind. After confirming the order, the management released him two days later. Similarly, two more prisoners, Akram Keehar and Noor Mohammad Khoso, were released on October 4 and October 24, respectively, following release orders issued by the first additional sessions judge. The notices were reportedly delivered personally by a court peon, Naseer Dasti, to the prison. The police have so far arrested the suspected mastermind, the clerk of second additional sessions judge, Abdul Qayoom Golo, peon Naseer Dasti, two clerks of the Sukkur jail, Amanullah Bhatti and Mumtaz Mirani, and Adan Junejo, who acted as a middleman between the prisoners and the court clerk.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 19^th, 2012.