PESHAWAR, April 2: A local court on Wednesday summoned the deputy-superintendent of central prison and a doctor in connection with death of a prisoner.

The Additional District and Sessions Judge, Tariq Yousafzai, directed the deputy-superintendent, Shahjehan Khan, and the doctor concerned of the Lady Reading Hospital to appear before the court on April 16, along with the relevant record.

The father and the wife of the deceased prisoner, Ghulam Idrees, claimed that he was severely tortured, which resulted in his death on Aug 22, last year. They had filed an application with the court, stating that an FIR should be registered against Mr Khan.

The father, Abdul Aziz, and the wife, Subhania, stated that Idrees was admitted at the LRH and his death certificate proved that his arms were fractured. The applicants alleged that the deputy-superintendent was notorious for torturing prisoners and a number of other prisoners had also died in mysterious circumstances.

JUDGMENT RESERVED: A two-member bench of the Peshawar High Court on Wednesday reserved its judgment regarding an appeal filed by a former Naib-Tehsildar, Sardar Ali, who was convicted by an accountability court.

The court had sentenced the official to three-year imprisonment and fined him Rs1.6 million on the charges of possessing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income.

Advocate Abdul Sattar Khan appeared for the appellant before the bench comprising Justice Nasirul Mulk and Justice Ijaz Afzal.

He argued that the evidence on record was not enough to prove the charges levelled against the official.

CONVICTION UPHELD: The Peshawar High Court upheld capital punishment awarded to an appellant by a trial court for killing another person.

A two-member bench dismissed the appeal and ruled that the prosecution had proved its case against the appellant, Amanath Khan.