Kot Lakhpat Jail
Appearance
(Redirected from Central Jail Lahore)
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Location | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
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Security class | Maximum |
Capacity | 4000[1] |
Opened | 1965 |
Managed by | Government of Punjab, Pakistan |
Director | (Senior Superintendent Jail) Ijaz Asghar (till date) |
Notable prisoners | |
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Sardar Bhagat Singh Rasool Bux Palijo Javed Iqbal Yusuf Kazzab Nawaz Sharif Jatindra Nath Das Saad Hussain Rizvi Hafiz Saeed |
Kot Lakhpat Jail, officially known as Central Jail Lahore, is a prison located at Rakh Chandra (Kot Lakhpat) in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
The jail houses more than four times the 4000 prisoner capacity it was built for.
History
[edit]Some prisoners died in the prison in the past, including Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was convicted of terrorism.[1][3]
Notable prisoners
[edit]- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
- Sardar Bhagat Singh
- Rasool Bux Palijo
- Javed Iqbal
- Yusuf Kazzab
- Nawaz Sharif, imprisoned in 2018 after conviction in Panama Papers case[4]
- Jatindra Nath Das
- Saad Hussain Rizvi
- Hafiz Saeed
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Sarabjit Singh critical after Lahore jail attack". Gulf Times. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ^ "Human hand found in sehri for prisoners". The Nation. Archived from the original on 1 September 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ^ "Inspector General of Prisons (Punjab)". Punjab Prisons (Pakistan) website. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
- ^ https://www.dawn.com/news/1453509 [bare URL]