Kot Lakhpat Jail Explained

Kot Lakhpat Jail, officially known as Central Jail Lahore, is a prison located at Kot Lakhpat in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

The jail houses more than four times the 4,000 prisoner capacity it was built for.

History

Some prisoners died in the prison in the past, including Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was convicted of terrorism.^{[2] [3]}

Notable prisoners

• Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
• Sardar Bhagat Singh
• Rasool Bux Palijo
• Javed Iqbal
• Yusuf Kazzab
• Nawaz Sharif, imprisoned in 2018 after conviction in Panama Papers case^[4]
• Jatindra Nath Das
• Saad Hussain Rizvi
• Hafiz Saeed
• Imran Khan, imprisoned in 2023 after conviction in Cypher No. I-0678

See also

• Headquarter Jail

References

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Notes and References

1. News: Human hand found in sehri for prisoners . 2022-05-15 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20100901084131/http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/Regional/Lahore/28-Aug-2010/Human-hand-found-in-sehri-for-prisoners . 2010-09-01. The Nation.
2. News: Sarabjit Singh critical after Lahore jail attack . 26 April 2013 . Gulf Times . 2022-05-15.
3. Web site: Inspector General of Prisons (Punjab) . 2022-05-15 . 2010-03-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100326071006/http://www.punjabprisons.gov.pk/ . dead. Punjab Prisons (Pakistan) website.
4. Web site: Nawaz Sharif shifted to Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail . 25 December 2018 .