ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and PTI chairman Imran Khan was on Tuesday shifted from the district jail of Attock to the Adiala jail in Rawalpindi. According to reports, he would be kept in the barrack in which former prime minister Nawaz Sharif was imprisoned.
The shifting was made after Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Aamir Farooq while hearing a bail application filed on behalf of Imran Khan in the cipher case on Monday ordered that he be shifted to the jail in Rawalpindi.
Imran Khan was arrested in the Toshakhana case on Aug 5th after a trial court sentenced him to three years’ and shifted to the district jail of Attock. Later, the high court suspended the sentence. However, he is still not out and is on judicial remand in the cipher case.
Imran Khan’s lawyer and spokesman Naeem Panjhota confirmed that his client was shifted to Adiala jail on Tuesday. Before the shifting of the former premier, heavy contingents of police and other law enforcement agencies were deployed at the Attock jail.
An 18-vehicle convoy including 15 vehicles of Islamabad police, two armoured vehicles and an ambulance escorted Khan from Attock to Adiala jail in Rawalpindi via the motorway.
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