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ISLAMABAD:
The Supreme Court has requested the Punjab government to comprise a clinical board to inspect Sheraz Butt, a death row detainee determined to have schizophrenia in 2016.
A three-judge seat, including Justice Ijazul Ahsan, Justice Muneeb Akhtar and Justice Syed Mazhar Ali Akbar Naqvi, heard the prison request, which was recorded in 2016.
Under section 66 of the 2021 "Safia Bano" judgment relating to insane detainees, the court requested the constitution of a clinical board for Butt in the following 15 days and requested the report to be submitted inside 30 days.
As per the judgment, the board should comprise of qualified clinicians and therapists from public area clinics.
Butt was condemned to death in 2012 for lethally wounding his mom four years sooner at his home in Lahore. Indications of his psychological instability were clear well before the episode happened, yet he was first determined to have schizophrenia by prison experts in 2016.
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Notwithstanding different clinical assessments affirming Butt's psychological instability throughout the long term, he keeps on leftover waiting for capital punishment. He is presently detained in Central Jail, Lahore.
The Supreme Court in its milestone "Safia Bano" judgment last year announced that death row detainees ought not be executed, assuming they are viewed as experiencing dysfunctional behavior and in this way, unfit to fathom the reasoning behind their execution.
Setting boundaries for future cases, the national government and all commonplace states have been coordinated to establish a clinical board containing three qualified therapists and two analysts to decide the psychological well-being of such denounced detainees and assess assuming that they meet all requirements for an exception to capital punishment.
Dreary detainment conditions and solid enemy of crazy drugs have seriously impacted Butt's condition. He keeps on encountering hear-able and visual fantasies, has lost direction of reality, and regularly talks about himself in third individual.
