RAWALPINDI: The Supreme Court has asked the inspector general of prisons to explain whether former PML-N Senator Nehal Hashmi is in the Central Jail Adiala or in a hospital.

On Feb 2, the apex court sentenced Mr Hashmi to one-month imprisonment besides disqualifying him from holding any public office for five years for contempt of court.

He was shifted to the Adiala jail where he produced medical record about the treatment of a heart disease. The record showed that doctors had implanted three stents about three months ago.

Mr Hashmi was shifted to the jail hospital. A team of doctors from the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) visited the jail and examined him.

Later, a senior doctor from Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), who had carried out the angiography on Mr Hashmi, also visited the jail and examined him.

When Inspector General of Prison Department Shahid Saleem Baig was contacted, he confirmed to Dawn that the Supreme Court had asked him to clarify whether Mr Hashmi was in jail or admitted to a hospital.

“In the wake of the doctor’s advice, Mr Hashmi was shifted to the Adiala jail hospital,” the IGP said.

Published in Dawn, February 16th, 2018