Techie in Peshawar jail attacked |
India`s External affairs minister Sushma Swaraj has directed the Indian high commissioner in Pakistan to seek consular access to an Indian prisoner who was attacked at least thrice by inmates in a Peshawar jail. Hamid Nehal Ansari, a Mumbai resident, was arrested in 2012 for illegally entering Pakistan from Afghanistan reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. He suffered injuries in attacks by inmates in the Peshawar Central Prison. Sushma tweeted:I am very much disturbed to read about repeated attacks on Hamid Ansari who is detained in Peshawar jail since 2012. It is inhuman. Ansari’s lawyer lawyer Qazi Mohammad Anwar told Peshawar high court that Ansari had been kept in a death cell with a hardened criminal awaiting execution for a murder.Ansari had gone missing after he was taken into custody by intelligence agencies and local police in Kohat in 2012 and finally in reply to a habeas corpus petition filed by his mother, Fauzia Ansari, the high court was informed on January 13 that he was in custody of the Pakistan Army and was being tried by a military court.
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