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- Sources say three amongst arrested workers are ladies.
- Female workers conveyed messages between Imran, Bushra.
- Manpower for monitoring of Adiala jail elevated.
RAWALPINDI: After arresting former jail deputy superintendent, the regulation enforcement businesses (LEAs) have taken six extra workers of the Adiala jail into custody for allegedly aiding Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan, sources informed Geo News on Tuesday.
The sources stated three members of the jail workers’ community concerned in alleged facilitation of the previous prime minister have been ladies. The LEAs will examine these staff.
The aforementioned workers included a sweeper, two girl wardens and three officers posted on monitoring surveillance cameras within the jail premises, they stated.
The sources stated the feminine workers handed on messages between Imran and his spouse Bushra Bibi within the jail, including cell telephones of all these workers have been confiscated as properly.
Meanwhile, they stated, manpower for monitoring of the Adiala jail had additionally been elevated.
The sources, on August 14, stated that the previous deputy superintendent of Adiala jail Muhammad Akram had been taken into custody on expenses of aiding the incarcerated PTI founder.
Akram was faraway from his submit on June 20, whereas Deputy Superintendent Judicial Tahir Siddique Shah changed him as safety supervisor of Imran.
The Punjab dwelling division (jail part), via a notification, had eliminated Muhammad Akram, directing him to go away the cost and report back to the Prisons Department, Lahore.
The regulation enforcement businesses had began interrogating the arrested senior officer of Central Jail Rawalpindi — often known as Adiala jail.
The sources had stated Akram would allegedly convey the jailed PTI founder’s messages exterior the jail facility secretly.
They stated the LEAs had formally knowledgeable the inspector normal of prisons, Punjab, concerning the senior police officer’s arrest and probe.
The 71-year-old cricketer-turned-politician has been in jail for greater than a yr after he was booked in plethora of circumstances, together with the Toshakhana case, cipher case, and the un-Islamic marriage case.
His spouse, Bushra Bibi, has additionally been behind bars for months.
However, a courtroom suspended his sentence within the Toshakhana case, whereas different courts overturned his convictions within the cipher and iddat circumstances, respectively.
While there have been hopes for Khan and Bushra’s launch in July, they have been dashed when the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) arrested them on contemporary expenses associated to the sale of state items.
The probabilities of Imran’s launch from jail additional dimmed after the Lahore Police declared his arrest in a number of circumstances associated to the May 9, 2023, riots, that erupted after his detainment from from Islamabad High Court (IHC) premises final yr through which protesters focused authorities and army installations.
