RAWALPINDI: An under-trial mentally ill prisoner was murdered, while two others were injured after another inmate allegedly attacked them with a brick in the barracks of mentally ill prisoners in Adiala jail on Thursday.

He attacked the inmates while they were sleeping. Later, another prisoner, Mohammad Omer Azhar, woke up upon hearing the screams of the victims and called the security staff of the jail, who shifted the injured prisoners to the emergency ward of the jail hospital, where they were provided first aid.

Later, injured Ijaz Rabbani and Hamad Ali were shifted to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (Pims), while Sheraz Ahmad, who was badly injured, was shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital.

However, Ijaz Rabbani succumbed to his injuries upon reaching the hospital, the superintendent of Adiala jail said.

Following the orders of Inspector General of Prisons Punjab Mian Farooq Nazir, DIG Rawalpindi Region Rana Rauf, along with his medical team, has been conducting a detailed inquiry into the incident.

Meanwhile, police, investigating the murder of ex-MPA Chaudhry Adnan, have detained two suspected ‘shooters’ after tracing the motorcycle they used in the crime and sent both of them to jail for an identification parade on Thursday.

According to sources, the two suspects were arrested by the police in Karachi and brought to Rawalpindi.

Chaudhry Mohammad Adnan, 48, an independent candidate in the Feb 8 elections, was killed by unidentified motorcycle riders outside the Police Lines Headquarters on Feb 12.

After the registration of the FIR by Chaudhry Nadeem Iqbal, brother-in-law of the deceased, the police launched an investigation to arrest the culprits. According to the complainant, his brother-in-law, Chaudhry Adnan, was on his way to his residence in Jhanda Chichi in a black SUV when two persons fired at him and hit him in the neck, face, and other body parts.

The Civil Lines police booked former PML-N senator Chaudhry Tanveer, MNA-elect Daniyal Chaudhry, and Changez Khan in the Chaudhry Adnan murder case on the complaint of the deceased’s in-laws.

Published in Dawn, March 1st, 2024