KARACHI: A prisoner serving his term at Karachi Central Jail has misled the police authorities into releasing him on parole.
The prisoner identified as Tauseef got fake wedding invitation cards printed to trick the Sindh Home Department and police authorities into approving his plea for release on parole.
The prisoner had been convicted in a murder case registered at Karachi’s Aziz Bhatti police station. Tauseef used a sister’s wedding as a pretext to make out a case for his release on parole.
He also submitted a fake marriage invitation card to give the authorities to believe that he is not telling a lie. It emerged after his release that the invitation card is fake as someone else’s valima reception was taking place at the banquet whose address was printed on the card.
According to sources Tauseef came to his residence in Gulshan-e-Iqbal after being released from the prison. A team of the Central Jail police has been deployed outside his residence to take him into custody, the source said.
Earlier, under the Sindh Prisons and Corrections Services Act 2019, the Sindh home department had directed the release of eight terminally ill inmates from different jails of the province.
As many as eight convicts were being released early from the jails on account of being terminally ill or suffering from incurable diseases under the Sindh Prisons and Corrections Services Act 2019.
They will be released from jails in Karachi, Hyderabad and Sukkur for a duration of four months and were subject to meeting all formalities and conditions as laid down in the order.
The authorities directed the families of prisoners to submit a bond of Rs200,000 with concerned provincial authority prior to the release of the convict.
The prison authorities will hand over the physical custody of the prisoners to their families who have submitted the surety bond.
Furthermore, the release of prisoners will be purely on medical ground and the release period could further be extended by the competent authority.
Sindh is the only province in the country where the 125-year-old jail law has been amended. The development was made under an order of the Supreme Court in light of a provincial cabinet decision made in a session late last year.
