Eight prisoners released on medical grounds
Karachi
January 3, 2021
The Sindh home department, in light of a Supreme Court order in a human rights case, has released eight prisoners on medical grounds.
A notification, issued on Saturday, reads, “Pursuant to the order dated July 27, 2018 passed by the honourable Supreme Court of Pakistan in a human rights case and the decision of the provincial cabinet taken in its meeting held on December 9, 2020, the following convicted prisoners are hereby released and early discharged from Sindh prisons on account of being terminally ill and suffering from incurable diseases under Section 49 (a) and (b) of the Sindh Prisons and Corrections Services Act 2019 read with Rule 724 of the Sindh Prisons and Corrections Services Rules 2019 for a period of four (04) months subject to fulfilment of all codal formalities and conditions as laid down below. “The name of terminally ill prisoners with father’s names released from the Central Prison K