ISLAMABAD, Dec 22 (INP): The Pakistan Bar Council PBC chairman condemned the death of Professor Javed Ahmad, the head of Lahore Campus of the University of Sarghoda who died in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)’s custody on Friday.

Pakistan Bar Council Vice Chairman Kamran Murtaza and PBC Chairman Executive Committee Shabbir Shar strongly condemned the death, stating that “such glaring maltreatment and torture of an educationist at the hands of NAB and then jail officials which caused his death speaks a lot of the inhumane treatment of the anti-graft agency and the jail officials towards accused persons during the course of investigation.”

[timed-content-server show="12/23/2018 01:00 Asia/Karachi"]The bar leaders urged the federal government and the apex court for ordering a high-level inquiry into the incident and asked them to award the officials responsible exemplary punishments. Professor Muhammad Javed, former chief executive officer of the Lahore sub-campus of the Sargodha University, died of cardiac arrest, while in judicial remand. Prof Javed was lodged at the Camp jail, where he complained of chest pain, jail authorities and NAB said. He was shifted to Services Hospital Lahore for treatment but could not survive. Prof Javed was in the jail on judicial remand in connection with Sargodha University illegal campuses case since October. He and other accused in the case faced charges of establishing illegal sub-campuses under the public-private partnership policy and jeopardising the future of thousands of students. Former vice-chancellor of Sargodha University Dr Muhammad Akram Chaudhry, former registrar Brigadier (retd) Rao Jamil Asghar, Director Administration Lahore sub-campus Muhammad Akram, CEO of Mandi Bahauddin sub-campus Waris Nadeem and Naeem Mukhtar were the co-accused in the case. According to NAB Lahore, Prof Javed had been in judicial remand since October and was in good health before he was taken into custody. Expressing grief over his passing, NAB strongly condemned the notion that the professor passed away in its custody. “The deceased had been shifted to jail in good health,” it said in a statement. “According to regulations, jail authorities do not take custody of a suspect if his health is deteriorating,” the statement added. INP/AJ[/timed-content-server]