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KARACHI: On Saturday, September 1, 2018, Pakistan Peoples Party leader Sharjeel Inam Memon was shifted to Karachi Central Jail. After three bottles of alcohol were recovered during a raid by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar at the hospital he was admitted in.
Earlier today before taking up cases at the Supreme Court’s Karachi Registry, chief justice made surprise visits to three hospitals. He examined the rooms of political prisoners.
According to eye-witnesses, the chief justice examined Memon’s room for nearly three minutes. Also, He questioned the hospital’s staff about the PPP leader’s health.
PPP leader Nasir Hussain Shah said that medical report would determine whether or not MPA Sharjeel Memon was drunk.
Speaking to media persons after alleged recovery of liquor bottles from Memon’s hospital room during Justice Saqib Nisar’s visit to Ziauddin Hospital, Shah said that the party condemns it if bottles contained liquor. “We will investigate the matter to determine the truth,” he said.
“Chief Justice of Supreme Court is a respected figure. And in my personal opinion, he was within his right to conduct a raid in the hospital,” he said.
Bottles of alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes were found from Memon’s room which the court staff confiscated.
The chief justice upon return to SC’s Karachi Registry remarked, “I found three bottles of alcohol from Memon’s room.”
“The attorney general should visit and see what is happening,” he added.
Hours after the Chief Justice’s surprise visit, police sealed Memon’s hospital room and shifted him to Karachi Central Jail.
Blood samples of the former Sindh information minister were also taken.
Memon had been under treatment and in judicial custody at the Ziauddin Hospital’s Shirin Jinnah branch, where his room had been declared a sub-jail.
Two people were subsequently taken into custody in connection with the presence of liquor at the hospital.
