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Afghanistan/South Asia
16 jail officials suspended for prisoner escape
2004-12-29
FAISALABAD: Sixteen officials of Central Jail have been suspended and 11 arrested on suspicion they helped two convicted murderers escape. Sabir Hussain, 42, and Muhammad Ishtiaq, 38, were in prison for life after being convicted of murder in separate cases.
If they'd been hung, I'll betcha this wouldn't have happened...
According to police sources, Hussain and Ishtiaq were whitewashing walls in Central Jail when it came time to return to their barracks. They had apparently bribed staff to lock up prisoners without a head count, allowing the two to slip away unnoticed. When the two missing prisoners were noticed, the jail superintendent declared an emergency. Senior police officials reached the jail and ordered mobile units to cordon off the city and begin searching for the prisoners. The police sources said the houses of Hussain and Ishtiaq's families in Thikriwala and Toba Tek Singh villages had been searched. A special team of investigators has been formed to find the prisoners.

After a preliminary inquiry, the Punjab government ordered the suspension of deputy superintendents Mian Hafeezur Rehman and Sheikh Jawed Afzal; assistant superintendents Rana Irfan Suleman and Muhammad Naseem; head warders Muhammad Haneef, Nasrullah Khan and Naeem Ahmed; and warders Jawed Omer, Khalid Yaqoob, Ghulam Akbar, Muhammad Nawaz Saqi, Athar Hayat, Akbar Ali, Ghulam Abbas, Ghulam Ali, Muhammad Mujtaba, Noor Ahmed, and Muhammad Younas. Sadar police arrested the two deputy superintendents as well as warden Khalid Hayyat, Ghulam Abbas, Ghulam Ali, constables Azhar Hayyat, Ashraf Mujtaba, Noor Mohammad, Jawed, Ghulam Akbar, Younas and Nawaz Saqi. Sadar police registered a case against the 11 jail staffers under sections 223 and 224 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
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