The Rajasthan High Court in India has ruled that it is inhuman on the part of India to illegally detain Pakistani nationals in prisons until the other side releases Indian prisoners too. “We are not living in an era of an eye-for-an-eye”, observed the court. The Court was hearing the case of Pakistani prisoner Sajid Bashir, languishing in Jaipur Central Jail despite having served a ten-year sentence two years ago. Bashir, a resident of Bahawal village in Pakistan on the Indo-Pak border was nabbed by Indian authorities in 1991. He was subsequently sentenced for 12 years in 2001 after a trial that lasted for almost ten years. The Peoples Union for Civil Liberties (PUCL), an Indian civil rights organisation had filed a habeas corpus on behalf of Bashir.
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But again it is the authorities which allowed SEPTA trade a policy which believes Pakistan/Indian borders are septic and crossing is uncontrollable .One bacause the Regimes have discovered this as a life vein to themselves and smuggling creates all size of criminals who will not ask political rights.