6 days Ago By Shahid Rao
ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad High Court (IHC) Tuesday maintained the objections raised by the Registrar Office over Bushra Bibi’s petition seeking improved jail facilities and “Better Class” in the prison. A single bench of IHC comprising Justice Inaam Amin Minhas conducted hearing of the petition moved by Bushra Bibi, the spouse of incarcerated former Prime Minister Imran Khan and directed the petitioner to remove the objections within seven days. The bench conducted hearing of the petition along with the objections raised by the registrar office.
During the hearing, Zaheer Abbas Advocate and Muhammad Usman appeared before the court on behalf of Bushra Bibi. The IHC bench inquired whether a decision had been attached with the application submitted to the superintendent of Adiala Jail. Bushra Bibi’s counsel responded that the jail authorities did not even accept applications directly and they had sent the petition to jail officials via courier.
He added that a courier receipt for the application submitted on April 2 was attached as proof. Only those reforms yield results that have ownership of stakeholders: CJP Later, the court reserved its decision regarding the admissibility of the petition. Bushra Bibi, filed the petition through her lawyers Chaudhary Zaheer Abbas and Khalid Yousaf Chaudhary and adopted the stancethat as a former first lady who resided in the Prime Minister’s House, she is entitled to better facilities under the law due to her standard of living and lifestyle.
Her counsels asserted that Bushra requested better facilities from jail authorities, but received no response. The lawyers said that her husband, Imran Khan, is also receiving better facilities in the same Adiala jail. The petition cited the Jail Rules 1978, seeking court direction for the respondents to fulfill their legal responsibilities and provide better jail amenities to Bushra Bibi.
She cited the federal government through Secretary of Interior, Superintendent Adiala jail and the Islamabad Chief Commissioner as respondents. Opposition Leader gets interim bails in 8 cases The petition said that as per social status of the petitioner, she remained First Lady from August 2018 to April 2022 and was resident of prime Minister House, Pakistan and she is accustomed with the better living in her previous life and qualifies the prescribed criteria enshrined in prison Rules 1978 for acquiring the better class in the prison. It added that since after the admission of petitioner in the prison i.
e 17.01.2025, the respondent No.
2 was repeatedly requested to classify the petitioner as per law and prevailing rules but he lended a deaf ear on the request of petitioner till today. Bushra’s counsels mentioned that the petitioner moved a written application to the respondent No.2 in this regard but the same has not been decided yet and petitioner has not been classified yet as per her entitlement under the law and rules.
Therefore, they prayed that the respondents be directed to perform his legal obligation and classify the petitioner as per her entitlement of “BETTER CLASS” in prison under the rules 1978. Ukraine claims two Chinese fighting in Russian army captured Tags: ihc maintains objections.
