Central Jail Rawalpindi

Central Jail Rawalpindi
Location Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Coordinates 33°29′14.62″N 73°2′24.49″E / 33.4873944°N 73.0401361°E / 33.4873944; 73.0401361Coordinates: 33°29′14.62″N 73°2′24.49″E / 33.4873944°N 73.0401361°E / 33.4873944; 73.0401361
Security class Maximum
Capacity 1919
Population 5082[1] (as of 04 April 2016)
Opened 1986
Managed by Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Director Saeed Ullah Gondal, Senior Superintendent of Jail[2]

Central Jail Rawalpindi (also slanged as Adyala jail by local residents of surrounding rural area) is a prominent jail in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

History

The Central Jail Rawalpindi was constructed in between the late 1970s and early 1980s during the military regime of General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, after hanging to death of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the ex-Prime Minister of Pakistan on 4 April 1979 in District Jail Rawalpindi. The latter jail was demolished and converted into a public park. The Jail is situated on Rawalpindi - Adyala Road near village Dahgal about 13 kilometres toward west of District Courts and the defunct / demolished old District Jail Rawalpindi. The village Adyala (with whose relation the Jail is slanged as Adyala Jail) is located about 4 kilometres west of the Jail.

Notable prisoners

See also

References

  1. ↑ Official Website of Punjab Prisons (Pakistan)
  2. ↑ http://criticalppp.com/archives/36467
  3. ↑ "ACTOR SENTENCED TO 7 YEARS." Daily News of Los Angeles. 8 January 2003. Retrieved on 24 September 2011. "[...]assistant superintendent at the Adiala jail, where Aude is being kept."
  4. ↑ Jail Superintendent confiscated mobile phone recovered from Yousuf Raza Gillani
  5. ↑ http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pakistan-court-adjourns-zaki-ur-rehman-lakhvi-hearing-as-judge-on-leave-749843
  6. ↑ http://www.ndtv.com/world-news/pakistan-court-adjourns-zaki-ur-rehman-lakhvi-hearing-as-judge-on-leave-749843
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