SIALKOT, July 27: A probe body constituted by the Punjab Chief Minister visited the Sialkot District Jail on Sunday after attending a meeting at the DCO office.

Led by Lt-Col Tariq Saadat (retired), the team included Brig Tauqeer (former IG prisons), Suhail Humayun and Fazal Asghar. After reaching here early in the morning, it held a meeting at the Sialkot DCO office with District Nazim Mian Naeem Javaid, DCO Zahid Saeed, DPO Amjad Javaid Saleemi and SP (HQ) Tariq Abbas Qureshi.

The local officials reportedly briefed the team on the jail tragedy. Later, the visitors went to the jail to examine the barracks where hostage-taking and shootout between the prisoners-cum-captors and police took place on Friday noon.

The probe team will submit its findings to the CM within a week.

According to APP, the probe body has established its camp office at Sialkot to ensure completion of investigation within the given time.

Meanwhile, Punjab acting jail chief Capt Sarfraz Ahmad Mufti has already conducted departmental preliminary enquiry

into the tragedy and sent its report to the Punjab Home Department.

UNDER FIRE: Police continues to be under fire for what local judiciary, lawyers and political circles say, reacting hastily.

Talking to newsmen, Sialkot District Bar Association president Munawar Hussain Warraich said that a judicial probe under LHC’s senior judges would be acceptable to them only.

STRIKE: On the appeal of the Lahore High Court Bar Association and Punjab Bar Council, the lawyers will observe strike on Monday.