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CJ Sends Sharjeel Memon Back To Jail

Karachi (February 17, 2018): The chief justice Mian Saqib Nisar ordered that former provincial minister Sharjeel Inam Memon to be returned to jail from a medical facility he was being held in.

“The court did not allow Memon to be transferred to a hospital,” Justice Saqib Nisar told IG jail Nusrat Magan when the latter insisted that the former Sindh information minister had been admitted on doctors’ recommendations.

After his arrest from the SHC in October last year, Memon had appealed that a medical board be formed to examine him since his health was deteriorating. The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) ordered that a medical board comprising a neurologist and a neurophysician among other specialists be formed to determine if Memon can be treated at the Karachi Central Jail’s own hospital or not.Taking the medical report prepared by the medical board formed by NAB, the chief justice today pointed out that the report had only recommended a few medical tests. The board had also recommended that Memon should be treated in the jail hospital, the chief justice said.

“Who ordered you to transfer him [Memon] to a medical facility?” Justice Nisar asked Magan. “Send him back to jail today.”

Notices were also issued to the medical board that examined Memon.

An accountability court in Karachi had on Thursday indicted Memon and 11 others in a corruption case pertaining to the award of advertisements at ‘exorbitant rates’ through the abuse of power.NAB had filed a reference in 2016 against the former minister, the then provincial information secretary, deputy directors of the Sindh information department Mansoor Ahmed Rajput, Mohammed Yousuf Kaboro and others for allegedly committing corruption from 2013 to 2015 in awarding advertisements of the provincial government’s awareness campaigns in electronic media, causing a loss of around Rs3.27 billion to the national exchequer.

Shahruhk Jatoai Case

Chief Justice (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar on Saturday came down hard on doctors who had prepared a medical report for Shahrukh Jatoi, the prime suspect in the Shahzeb Khan murder case, even making an unannounced visit to the Jinnah Hospital to see for himself how the hospital was running its affairs.Shahrukh Jatoi’s report — prepared by the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) and read out in court by the Inspector General of Sindh’s Prison Police, Nusrat Magan — had clearly not satisfied the CJP, who questioned the standards of the medical institute.

According to reports, the document had stated that Jatoi was suffering from piles, which surprised Justice Nisar as he recalled that the accused had actually complained of a cardiac issue.

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The chief justice was further displeased when Magan told him that Jatoi had been transferred to a ‘C’ category jail.

“Why is a murder convict kept in ‘C’ class?” the chief justice demanded. “Why isn’t he in a dark cell?”

Magan responded that prisoners are kept in ‘C’ class until the SC confirms their sentence.The CJP also ordered jail authorities to submit a report on the number of prisoners that are transferred from the jail to the hospital to receive medical care.

Jatoi was among three accused in the Shahzeb Khan murder case — Siraj Talpur and Sajjad Talpur being the other two — who had been arrested after the SC revoked their bails earlier this month. The fourth accused, Ghulam Murtaza Lashari, a servant of the Talpurs, had already been in jail.

Packaged Milk Issue

The Chief Justice got enraged over the absence of owners of packaged milk companies and remarked they seemed coward persons and sent their staff rather to face court themselves.

“You must correct your behavior, if your company owner related to forces that will not fear us,” he said directing the company representative without appearance of company owner court will not review its decision in this connection.

Dairy companies use UHT treatment to increase the shelf life of packaged milk. For UHT treatment, milk is heated to above 135 degrees Celsius to kill harmful bacteria. Pasteurisation is a similar process, but involves lower temperatures and seeks to preserve microbes that are good for human consumption while eliminating harmful ones.

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