GUJRANWALA, Aug 29: About 150 deportees were sent to Lahore camp jail on Tuesday after the refusal of local jail authorities to detain them owing to overcrowding.

Reports said the Gujranwala circle of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) had brought over 157 deportees from Quetta some days back. They were being sent to Greece by human smugglers through Iran-Turkey border when the security forces of these countries arrested them and deported them.

The FIA produced them before the court for sending them to jail on judicial remand, but the jail authorities declined to accept them because of overcrowding as about 450 deportees had already been detained there.

Later, the jail officials accepted 10 accused who belonged to Gujranwala district.

Jail officials said most of the prisoners could not sleep at night as almost 4,000 had been detained against a capacity of 911. They said the government should construct more barracks and cells for prisoners in district jail.

ACQUITTED: The local anti-terrorism court No 2 on Tuesday acquitted as many as 18 accused, including three women, involved in the killing of a minor boy.

Reports said Imran, son of Manzoor Ahmad, was killed during a clash between police and people of civil line area over some issue on May 31 last year. Later, the police had booked 18 people, including three women, in the murder case and submitted a charge sheet against them.

Complainant Manzoor Ahmed appeared before the court and said that his son was killed in police firing on which ATC judge Tariq Iftikhar Ahmad acquitted the accused.