Imran Khan awoke on Sunday as an inmate in the high-security Attock prison in Attock city but should have been in Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, according to the order issued by an Islamabad trial court that found the former Pakistan prime minister guilty in a corruption case.
Khan, 70, was arrested from his home in Lahore on Saturday shortly after being convicted and sentenced to three-year imprisonment in the Toshakhana corruption case.
According to the court order, additional district and sessions judge Humayun Dilawar ordered the Islamabad police chief to arrest the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, instead, it was the Punjab police that arrested Khan.
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The court also ordered the Adiala jail superintendent to receive Khan, who was taken to Attock jail amid tight security.
The court order issued for the inspector general of police (IGP) Islamabad said: “This is to authorize and require you the I.G. Islamabad Police to arrest the convict Imran Khan Niazi son of Ikramullah Khan and to send him to Central Prison Adyala, Rawalpindi, for serving out the stated sentences,” the Dawn newspaper reported.
“This is to authorize and require you the said superintendent to receive the said convict Imran Khan Niazi into your custody in the said jail, together with this warrant for serving out the stated sentences,” said another court order issued for the Adiala jail superintendent.
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However, Khan was neither arrested by the capital police nor detained at Adiala jail, the report said.
It quoted sources in Punjab police as saying that the Lahore police were alerted before noon and an order was given to them to arrest Khan shortly after the court verdict.
Therefore, a team of Lahore police constituted under the supervision of a senior police officer was put on standby, which then reached Khan’s Zaman Park residence shortly after the verdict was announced, the sources added.
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