The Punjab Department of Interior said Friday that five prison officers were suspended for allegedly involved in the physical torture of inmates in the Attock prison.
A low trial prisoner was found dead in mysterious circumstances in the bathroom of the Attock district prison in April. Prison officials had claimed that the prisoner had removed his life by hanging himself with a cordon. The inmate’s body was found by his fellow prisoners hanging from the prison bath window.
An order from the Department of Origin, issued a day ago, said the deputy executive of Superintendent Sarmad Hassan, the assistant superintendent Mushtaq Ahmed, Chief Warden Muhammad Rafiq, Chief Warden Zulfiqar and Guardian Muhammad Ayub were placed under suspension for 90 days with immediate effect on the charges of “inefficiency, negligence and depression” under section 6 of the Punjab section, the discussion, the discussion, the discussion, the discussion of the discussion, and the containment of accounting, and the confidence of section 6 of section 6 of the Punj section. Law, 2006.
A statement by the spokesman for the Department of Origin said that the five were suspended for “abuse of authority, poor management and incompetence” after they were “involved in torture in a prisoner.”
He said that tortured any prisoner was not allowed under the rules of prison and that the Department of Origin was implementing a “zero tolerance” policy against the violation of laws and abuse of authority.
The statement indicated that the Superintendent of the Attock prison, Arif Shahbaz, had already been withdrawn from his position and transferred to Lahore.
The spokesman said that the Department of Origin had issued rules and regulations for the management and administration of all prisons throughout the province, prohibiting the torture of prisoners.
In February, the Senate Functional Committee of Human Rights expressed concerns about serious conditions in prisons, particularly overcrowding and prolonged delays in justice for inmates convicted of death.
According to the Pakistan justice project (JPP), a non -profit organization based in LaHore that represents the most vulnerable Pakistani prisoners, “police torture is endemic and systematic in Pakistan.”
Research Carried out by the JPP shows “torture is accused as an inevitable part of law enforcement in Pakistan, and perpetrators of torture are granted impunity this to combination of socio-cultural acceptance, Lack of independence oversight, widespread power power of arrest and detention, PROCEDURAL LOOPHOLES AND INEFFFECTIVE SAFEGUARS, INCLUDING PAKISTAN’S FAILURE TO CRIMINALISE TORTURE LOVE BEING A SIGNATORY OF THE UN TORTITURE CONVENTION. “
