April 11, 2006	Tuesday	Rabi-ul-Awwal 12, 1427

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ISLAMABAD, April 10: Fifty-five inmates of Adiyala and Kot Lakhpat jails on Monday moved the Supreme Court against forfeiture of remission in their sentence and sought immediate release of those who had completed their sentence.

The prisoners pleaded that their continued detention due to forfeiture of remission was in violation of the constitutional protection.

Of the 55 prisoners, 32 are confined in the Kot Lakhpat Jail, Lahore, and the rest are kept in the Adiyala Jail, Rawalpindi.

They are undergoing life imprisonments in different cases, including murder and narcotics peddling. One of them has been convicted under section 10(3) of the Offences of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood Ordinance, 1979).

The prisoners have cited federal ministries of law and interior, Punjab home secretary, Inspector General of Prisons, Punjab, and the superintendent of the Kot Lakhpat Central Jail as respondents.

They said the benefit of section 382-B, CrPC, granted to them under which the period of detention of an under-trial prisoner was counted in the sentence had been withdrawn.