GUJRANWALA, March 4: The Anti-Terrorism Court No 1 on Friday admitted a petition for transferring the Sialkot jail case to the district and sessions court.

Counsel for accused Muzaher Ali Akbar pleaded that the case should be transferred to the district and sessions court as it did not fall in the jurisdiction of the special court. The judge asked him to produce more arguments in support of his stance on the next date of hearing and adjourned the case for March 11.

Former Gujranwala DIG Muhammad Iqbal, former Sialkot DPO Amjad Javed, former Gujrat DPO Raja Munawar Husain, Allama Iqbal Memorial Hospital MS Dr Firdaus, surgeon Dr Sajjad Husain, former Sialkot jail superintendent Sikandar Hayat, assistant superintendents Raja Mushtaq Ahmad, Akhtar Iqbal and Ghulam Sarwar, ex-SHO Zulfikar Ali Virk, elite force officials and an accused, Shahid, involved in supplying illegal arms in jail were also present in the court.

It is to be mentioned here that senior police officers and doctors had got their interim bail confirmed from the Supreme Court on Thursday.