Mentally ill prisoner’s genocide sentence: SC to hear interest on Monday for suspension

The petition filed by Hayat’s mom Iqbal Bano was bound for discussion on on Saturday. A day earlier, a district and sessions decider scheduled a execution of Hayat — a mentally ill restrained on genocide quarrel — for Jan 15 during a executive jail in Kot Lakhpat.

Hayat was condemned to genocide in 2003 over a sharpened of a associate military officer. He has spent scarcely 15 years on genocide row. He was initial diagnosed as a schizophrenic in 2008 by jail medical authorities. In 2010, a jail medical officer endorsed that Hayat indispensable specialised diagnosis and should be shifted to a psychiatric facility. However, this was never done.

In 2017, a Lahore High Court had stayed a execution of Hayat.

On Monday, a two-member dais comprising Justice Manzoor Ahmad Malik and Justice Sardar Tariq Masoof will hear a case.

A ask was also submitted in a court’s tellurian rights dungeon on Saturday that was reviewed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar. The petition called for a Supreme Court’s courtesy to a fact that a mentally ill restrained was being condemned to death. Hayat’s mother, in a letter, requested a arch probity to revisit Kot Lakhpat jail’s sentinel for mentally ill prisoners and examine what medicines were being given to her son.

She pleaded that his medical annals be investigated “to establish because his diagnosis was not being finished scrupulously and because his condition was worsening day by day”.

“I review in newspaper that a restrained named Khizar Hayat has been condemned to be hanged,” a arch probity remarked, interrogation from a Punjab profession ubiquitous that jail Hayat was portion his judgment in. The central replied it was Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail.

Justice Nisar asked that it be immediately guarded if Hayat has been diagnosed as mentally ill and sought a news today.

Meanwhile, Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), that has been contesting a case, has been using a debate on amicable media, seeking President Arif Alvi to “grant mercy” to Hayat. According to Article 45 of a Constitution, a boss has a “power to extend pardon, postpone and respite, and to remit, postpone or invert any judgment upheld by any court, judiciary or other authority”.

Earlier on Saturday, a press discussion was organized by a Pakistan Psychiatric Society to call to courtesy a prisoner’s execution.

“All medical officers who have examined Khizar Hayat over a years have found him to be actively exhibiting schizophrenic symptoms,” pronounced Dr Usman Ahmad Hotiana of a Pakistan Psychiatric Society. “In 2009, Khizar’s mental illness got so serious that he got horribly beaten by his associate prisoners. His injuries were serious adequate to need surgeries. After that, he was put in unique confinement.”

Article source: https://www.suchtv.pk/pakistan/punjab/item/80107-mentally-ill-prisoner-s-death-sentence-sc-to-hear-appeal-on-monday-for-suspension.html