LAHORE - On the instruction of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif some 200 prisoners confined on the charges of minor crimes were set free from the Camp Jail on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr allowing them to celebrate Eid with their dear ones. Additional District and Session Judge Abdul Maajid visited the Camp Jail and released these prisoners who were involved in minor offences or were about to complete their punishment awarded by the authorised courts. The prisoners included those who were involved in minor cases like carrying narcotics less than 80 grams, quarrel cases, awaragardi, minor theft and others cases.After visit of the jail, Abdul Maajid noted his comments in the visitors book: “I visited jail on the instruction of home secretary and released about 200 prisoners from the judicial lock up involved in petty offences”. He further said, “I visited prisoners’ barracks along with area magistrate Muhammad Nawaz Marth and there was no serious complaint against the jail staff”.A good number of people thronged Camp Jail on Ferozpur Road to see their relatives who were behind the bar on account of various crimes. Most of them were carrying goods like clothes, sweets, food and drinks to offer them to their relative prisoners. The jail officials had offered meeting opportunity to all categories of the prisoners that was the reason people had gathered in huge number outside the jail, said a jail official.
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