A Pakistani citizen named Rois Khan has been released from Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur after 26 long years.
Rais Khan is the son of Din Mohammad from Gulzar Hijri police station in Karachi district, Pakistan. He was serving a sentence in a case filed by Ramna Police Station under the Narcotics Control Act.
He was released from Kashimpur Central Jail-2 at 12:30pm on Thursday. Later, he left through the main gate in a red car at around 1:30pm.
Kashimpur Central Jail-2 Senior Jail Superintendent Md Al Mamun confirmed the matter.
Sources from the jail revealed that Rois Khan had been imprisoned since 29 September 1999. It would be almost six years later, on 7 July 2005, that he would be sentenced, which expired on 24 September of this year.
The Kashimpur Jail superintendent added that he had been held as a freed prisoner for a long time. At 12:30pm on Thursday, he was handed over to embassy representatives in the presence of Special Branch representatives, he said.
