After agitating prisoners’ demand to bring back a fellow inmate, Mohammad Ali Khokhar, from Shikarpur jail, was approved.
Normalcy finally was restored at the Larkana Central Prison, which had been the scene of repeated protests and rioting for approximately seven months.
Khokhar was one of 13 “dangerous” offenders sent to other jails, according to jail officials.
After Khokhar was taken back on an order issued by the DIG of Sukkur jail, the convicts released the seven police officers they had been keeping hostage since last Friday, according to sources.
The Larkana prison’s senior superintendent, Ashfaq Kalwar, confirmed to Media that all seven police officers held hostage by convicts had been released, ending the eight-day siege.
Before taking the extreme action of hostage-taking for Khokhar’s return, the convicts had been protesting for nearly a month over the January 12 transfer of their 13 fellow inmates, including Khokhar, to other jails.
Since then, negotiations between the agitating inmates and the jail officials have continued, but the latter have refused to give in to the pressure, even when a big group of convicts went to the roof and set fire to bedsheets in one of the events.
A local Pakistan Peoples Party leader joined the talks on Thursday evening, and the situation was resolved. On his pledge that Khokhar would be returned, the convicts released five police officers: Imran Zuhrani, Murtaza Junejo, Tariq Rajpar, Shahnawaz Korkani, and Daman Jagirani.
According to sources, when Khokhar returned to the jail on the direction of the DIG Sukkur jail, the remaining two cops — Abdul Rasheed Golo and Abdul Waheed Golo — were released.
The 946 convicts now housed in the Larkana jail “provided the total” on Friday evening. “Give total,” in jail jargon, indicates that all inmates are returned to their respective barracks by sundown without opposition.
Maula Bakhsh Sahito, the jail’s assistant superintendent, filed a complaint (FIR No.16/2022) against 47 inmates at the Waleed police station on Thursday for rioting, duty assault, and holding jail staff hostage.
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