KARACHI: Outgoing Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah has granted special remission of 120 days, or four months, to the convicts on the occasion of 76th Independence Day.
Home Secretary Aijaz Ali Shah issued an official notification to this effect.
It stated that in exercise of powers conferred under Rule 788 of the Sindh Prisons and Corrections Service Rules, 2019 and on the recommendation of the inspector general of Sindh prisons, the provincial government “is pleased to grant special remission to the extent of 120 days to the convicted prisoners confined in various prisons and correction facilities in the province”.
However, it stated that those convicts who had already benefited from the earlier special remission of 120 days in their sentences granted on Eidul Fitr and Eidul Azha during the current calendar year shall not be entitled to the relief.
It also clarified that the current special remission was for the convicted prisoners, except for the condemned ones and those convicted in the cases of murder, espionage, subversion, anti-state activities, terrorist activities, rape, kidnapping/abduction, robbery, dacoity and those undergoing sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946.
Published in Dawn, August 15th, 2023