Kot Lakhpat Jail, officially known as Central Jail Lahore, is a prison located at Rakh Chandra (Kot Lakhpat) in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
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Location | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
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Security class | Maximum |
Capacity | 4000[1] |
Opened | 1965 |
Managed by | Government of Punjab, Pakistan |
Director | (Senior Superintendent Jail) Ijaz Asghar (till date) |
Notable prisoners | |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Sardar Bhagat Singh Rasool Bux Palijo Javed Iqbal Yusuf Kazzab Nawaz Sharif Jatindra Nath Das Saad Hussain Rizvi Hafiz Saeed |
The jail houses more than four times the 4000 prisoner capacity it was built for.
History
editSome prisoners died in the prison in the past, including Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was convicted of terrorism.[1][3]
Notable prisoners
edit- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Sardar Bhagat Singh
- Rasool Bux Palijo
- Javed Iqbal
- Yusuf Kazzab
- Nawaz Sharif, imprisoned in 2018 after conviction in Panama Papers case[4]
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Saad Hussain Rizvi
- Hafiz Saeed
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Sarabjit Singh critical after Lahore jail attack". Gulf Times. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ^ "Human hand found in sehri for prisoners". The Nation. Archived from the original on 1 September 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ^ "Inspector General of Prisons (Punjab)". Punjab Prisons (Pakistan) website. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ^ https://www.dawn.com/news/1453509
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