Ayyan pleads for VIP facilities in jail

RAWALPINDI: Supermodel Ayyan Ali has filed an application for having Class-B in the Adiala Jail and the Custom Court, Rawalpindi, would decide the plea on March 28 as Judge Mumtaz Hussain Chaudhry was on leave on Thursday. The Adiala jail authorities have refused to provide Class-B (VIP) facilities to Ayyan Ali. In a written reply submitted to the court, a jail official said the supermodel had been on judicial remand and, therefore, she was not entitled to Class-B facilities.
Ayyan’s father Raja Hafeez claimed that jail authorities were not allowing him to meet his daughter. “I visited the jail thrice but was not allowed to meet my daughter,” he said. He said he had filed an application to the Custom Court and got a written order from the judge directing the jail authorities to arrange a meeting between him and his daughter. But the authorities said that she was not willing to meet him.
He said his daughter was innocent and trapped. “It was not her money nor she knew she was carrying such a huge amount,” he claimed.Ayyan’s lawyer Sardar Ishaq filed an application in the court, requesting it to provide VIP facilities to his client. He contended that his client was a celebrity and supermodel and therefore she should be given VIP facilities. On the other hand, a jail warden, requesting not to be named, said that applying for Class-B facilities was just a formality as Ayyan Ali had already been enjoying herself the VIP facilities. “She has been given a phone and is living in a well-furnished room,” he said. The official said that visitors who came to jail to meet her were also properly facilitated.