Kot Lakhpat Jail

Central Jail Lahore

Interactive map of Central Jail Lahore
Location	Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Security class	Maximum
Capacity	4000 [1]
Opened	1965
Managed by	Government of Punjab, Pakistan
Director	Ijaz Asghar [2]
Notable prisoners
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Sardar Bhagat Singh Rasool Bux Palijo Javed Iqbal Yusuf Kazzab Nawaz Sharif Imran Khan Jatindra Nath Das Saad Hussain Rizvi Hafiz Saeed

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. ^{[1] [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

1. "Sarabjit Singh critical after Lahore jail attack". Gulf Times. 26 April 2013. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
2. "Human hand found in sehri for prisoners". The Nation. Archived from the original on 1 September 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
3. "Inspector General of Prisons (Punjab)". Punjab Prisons (Pakistan) website. Archived from the original on 26 March 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.
4. "Nawaz Sharif shifted to Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail". 25 December 2018.

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