ISLAMABAD: The counsel for the Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI), Advocate Raja Mohammad Irshad, on Tuesday submitted a response regarding the Adiyala Jail missing prisoners case in the Supreme Court, DawnNews reported.

Advocate Irshad also appealed to the court to keep the response confidential.

A three-member bench of the apex court headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry was hearing the case.

During the hearing, Chief Justice expressed his displeasure over the failure of the authorities to try the prisoners in a court of law.

He remarked that if prisoners are to be kept in internment centres, then the clauses calling for a fair trial should be omitted from the Constitution altogether.

The case centres around the 11 prisoners who had gone missing from the gate of Rawalpindi’s Adiyala Jail on May 29, 2010 after they had been acquitted of terrorism charges pertaining to their alleged involvement in the October 2009 attacks on GHQ and ISI’s Hamza Camp in Rawalpindi.

Later, four of the 11 died in mysterious circumstances and the remaining seven were produced before the apex court on February 13, 2012 in a bad shape. They were sent to the Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar on court orders. After five of them recovered, they were shifted to an internment centre in Parachinar.