• The judge says that the police did not assign any specific role to any suspect
• The inmates tell the courts that they left temporarily local prison due to the chaos caused by the earthquake, they returned once the situation was normalized
Karachi: Up to 115 prisoners escaped from the district prison, Malir, have arrested and reserved in a case of terrorism together with the remaining fugitives, a police officer informed an anti -terrorist court on Thursday.
The authorities said that the City of the City of Shah Latif registered a case related to the Jailbreak and the escape of 216 inmates in different sections of the Pakistan Criminal Code and the Anti -Terrorism Law on the complaint of the prison official Zulfiqar Ali Peerza.
On Thursday, the investigating officer of the case produced 115 prisoners recaptured after the Jailbreak before the administrative judge of the ATC in the judicial complex within the central prison.
He informed the court that 115 fugitives were arrested outside the prison and sought his physical prison for 14 days to arrest the remaining 101 inmates.
However, the Court sent the Subtrial Prisoners (UTP) recaptured to prison by judicial prison, since he found no reason to deliver custody to the police.
“First of all, accused people are already UTP in other cases, secondly, no specific or individualized role has been attributed to each of the accused people, thirdly, it is not demonstrated that the new recoveries or evidence depends on the interrogation of custody.
“It shows more, since it seems that IO has brought this matter as casually as it did not bring a record of the appropriate jail duly signed by the authorities of the jail in question that all the UTP show as they are listed in this FIR and surprisingly that initially presented the registration of one hundred eighteen (118) UTPS, but then altered with their own number of peres (115). UTP, ”said the judge in order.
He added that the IO could not produce the newspapers of the case, the witnesses, the property of the recovered cases and the medical record of the injured police officer.
The court observed that the IO claim seemed not to convince that such a large amount of UTP was arrested outside the prison after the Jailbreak.
When the court asked the UTP detained about the circumstances of their arrest, they unanimously declared that they did not escape.
According to them, during the earthquake, the roof of the jail collapsed and a wall was partially damaged. In the chaos that followed, they sought the help of the prison authorities, who were trying to reach a safe place.
The inmates also informed the court that had left the facilities temporarily, but returned once the situation was normalized. They alleged that the prison police later showed them falsely arrested.
The court observed that these statements created ambiguity, throwing doubts about the alleged crime.
The Court ordered the IO to submit a report under section 173 of the Code of Criminal Procedure together with the entire relevant registration and the appropriate UTP list arrested and its role on July 1 or before.
Posted in Dawn, June 6, 2025
