Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shahbaz Gill and former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Chief of Staff Shahbaz Gill are making all possible efforts to provide relief to him who is imprisoned in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on charges of sedition.
According to a media report, Shahbaz Gill was shifted to the jail hospital by the concerned authorities following reports of alleged torture and further efforts are reportedly being made to shift him to a government medical center in Rawalpindi.
Meanwhile, the provincial government transferred Rawalpindi Jail Superintendent Chaudhry Asghar Ali, and Provincial Prisons Minister Muhammad Hashim Dogar was also sent to meet the PTI leader.
Superintendent Asghar Ali’s transfer came after Hashim Dogar tweeted that he had ‘recommended’ to remove the jail authorities for ‘keeping Shahbaz Gill in a special cell (chakki)’ on his first night in jail.
In the tweet, he added that no prisoner is being treated like this, I have recommended the competent authority to remove the DIG and Jail Superintendent.
Apart from this, there are also reports of transfer of DIG Jails Rawalpindi Region Abdul Rauf Rana, however this could not be confirmed till the time of publication of this report.
However, before tweeting about his recommendation to remove the top jail officials, the home minister ruled out any violence by jail staff, saying he would brief the PTI chairman on the ‘fact’.
However, in another tweet late at night, he denied what he had said earlier and said that “I want to say that Shahbaz Gill has been severely tortured in the custody of Islamabad Police”.
The provincial minister further said that efforts are being made to cancel his judicial remand and transfer him to the custody of Islamabad police, as Shahbaz Gill’s life is in danger.
Hashim Dogar further said that ‘tomorrow there is a hearing against the judicial remand of Shahbaz Gill, if the remand is terminated and he is handed over to the Islamabad police, then there is a fear that he will be treated badly’.
On the other hand, the 7-member parliamentary delegation of PTI expressed serious concern over the alleged police torture on the arrested PTI leader.