This was disclosed in a letter, a copy of which is available with The Express Tribune, by SHC Registrar Ghulam Rasool Samoon to the Sindh advocate general. The SHC registrar admitted that the March 26 press statement, stating that 829 accused were released on the high court chief justice’s direction, “was not happily worded”. It is also stated that the SHC chief justice has issued an instruction to the Sindh government through the registrar to fumigate prisons, sub-jails, judicial lock-ups to disinfect the effect of COVID-19. The letter says that no direction has been issued by the SHC chief justice to the prison department regarding the release of prisoners. The hearing of the case was adjourned until today wherein a written order about the release of prisoners will be issued.

Source: The Express Tribune April 07, 2020 08:03 UTC