ISLAMABAD: Two employees of Supreme Court of Pakistan (SCP) were suspended on Wednesday for violating the court timings to transmit former premier Nawaz Sharif’s release orders to Kot Lakphat Jail in haste on Tuesday, local media reported.
One named Ali of Supreme Court’s principal seat in Islamabad and another, Shehzad from Supreme Court’s Lahore registry were suspended on Wednesday evening.
The court’s work hours end at 3:30 PM whereas the two employees, who are court’s dispatchers, physically took the release orders from Islamabad to Lahore late in the night.
Tariq Fazal Chaudhry, Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader and former minister Capital Administration and Development Division (CADD), had accompanied both the employees in a private plane and had reached Kot Lakhpat Jail to secure the incarcerated former premier’s release.
Apart from the violation of court’s timings, it was also learnt that the jail manual was also violated.
According to jail procedures, the prison gates cannot be opened after sunset, but they were opened to allow in the dispatchers and the minister, and were opened again to send Sharif out.
Sharif was released from Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat Jail at around 1 AM on Wednesday after the Supreme Court granted him a six-week bail for medical treatment on Tuesday afternoon.
Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif will undergo treatment at Sharif Medical City Hospital, his doctor said on Wednesday.
Nawaz, who was released from Kot Lakhpat Jail after the Supreme Court granted him bail on Tuesday for six weeks to obtain medical treatment in the country, will be shifted to Lahore’s Sharif Medical City Hospital, his personal physician Dr Mohammad Adnan Khan informed.
A three-judge bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa yesterday approved the former premier’s bail for six weeks on medical grounds. The court ruled that Nawaz will not be allowed to leave the country for treatment, and directed him to submit two bail bonds amounting to Rs10 million.
The PML-N supremo reached his home in Jati Umra late Tuesday night to a warm welcome by his family members, including his mother, daughter Maryam, and brother Shehbaz Sharif.
Maryam has repeatedly said that her father’s kidney function has deteriorated and his kidney disease is at stage three.
Nawaz, thrice the prime minister of Pakistan, had been in jail since December 2018 following his conviction in Al-Azizia corruption reference in line with the Supreme Court’s July 2017 verdict.
