Most child inmates still under trial
Only 71 Of 544 juvenile prisoners in Punjab serving sentence
PHOTO: AGENCIES
There are 544 juvenile prisoners in 42 jails across Punjab, including teenage girls.
Cases against 464 juvenile inmate are pending, while 71 children have been sentenced. Trials of all the incarcerated girls are still being heard. According to official data, Faisalabad Central Jail has the highest number of 74 children, followed by 70 in Bahawalpur District Jail, 69 in Lahore District Jail, 64 in Rawalpindi Central Jail and 45 in Gujranwala Central Jail.
The are 12 child prisoners in Kasur District Jail, 24 Sheikhupura, five in Sialkot, two each in Narowal and Attock, 17 in Okara, seven in Vehari, eight each in Gujrat and Jhang, 12 in Mandi Bahauddin, four each in Toba Tek Singh and Rahim Yar Khan, five in Sargodha, three each in Shahpur, Bhakkar, Jhelum and Layyah, 13 in Hafizabad, six in Lodhran, 19 in in Dera Ghazi Khan, 22 in Muzaffargarh and nine in Rajanpur Di