The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Saturday clarified that University of Sargodha Professor Mian Javed Ahmed didn't die in its custody but in judicial custody in the Lahore District Jail. The anti-graft watchdog in a statement said the deceased was neither professor nor doctor but was the owner of the university's Lahore campus.
He died in the custody of jail authorities, the Bureau explained and added it was the jail administration's responsibility to look after issues concerning inmates incarcerated in prison and that the NAB had nothing to do with it.
Moreover, NAB's representatives have refuted speculations that Javed had died due to their negligence and further mentioned that NAB's Chairman Justice (Rtd) Javed Iqbal had strictly ordered not to handcuff any person in custody.
On October 23, he was sent to jail while he was in good condition.
As per jail manual, a NAB officer's interference or permission thereof can't even be imagined, it asserted, and added an accountability court had sent the deceased to prison on judicial remand in Oct.
The postmortem report revealed on Saturday that University of Sargodha (UoS) Lahore sub-campus former chief executive officer (CEO) Mian Javed Ahmed died from a cardiac arrest.
Furthermore, the report has not mentioned any signs of torture on the deceased's body.
Reportedly, he was taken into custody by the NAB following Chief Justice of Pakistan's (CJP) orders to investigate into allegedly illegal opening of sub-campuses of the varsity in Lahore and Mandi Bahauddin and embezzlement of millions of rupees.
The Lahore District Jail authorities said the incarcerated professor suffered a cardiac arrest and was rushed to Services Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead on arrival.
Following his relatives request to unchain his body, police officers had been searching for judicial officials while the deceased remained handcuffed. Mian Javed, who died a day earlier from cardiac arrest, was being investigated for allegedly opening illegal campuses and minting million of rupees from students.