LAHORE, Jan 18: Punjab Advocate General (AG) Maqbool Elahi Malik on Saturday visited the Chuhng sub-jail where Dr Ahmad Javed Khwaja and his four family members have been detained for three months under the Security of Pakistan Act, 1952.

The Lahore High Court had instructed him to visit the sub-jail along with their counsel Pervaiz Inayat Malik to assess the situation regarding the problems allegedly being faced by five Khwaja family members.

However, the AG went all alone to the sub-jail and told the pressmen that the detained had no problem over there. When asked why he did not take the defence counsel and other members of the Jail Reforms Committee along with him, the AG claimed that he had been instructed to go alone by the court.

Inayat Malik, however, told Dawn that according to his information the Lahore SSP had accompanied the AG during his visit to the sub-jail which was a clear violation of the law.

Only a senior official of the prisons department, he said, could go along with the AG and the presence of the SSP in the sub-jail was indication that certain irregularities were being committed over there.

He said the Chuhng investigation centre could not be declared a sub-jail and the detainees should have been kept in any other jail of the Punjab. He had moved an application before the court saying the detained were being kept in a solitary confinement and were brought handcuffed to see their family members in jail.