Kot Lakhpat Jail

Central Jail Lahore
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LocationLahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Security classMaximum
Capacity4000[1]
Opened1965
Managed byGovernment of Punjab, Pakistan
Director(Senior Superintendent Jail)

Ijaz Asghar (till date)
Kamran Anjum (May 2013–September 2013)
Mohsin Rafique (January 2013–May 2013)

Mushtaq Ahmed Awan (August 2009–January 2012)[2]
Notable prisoners
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Sardar Bhagat Singh
Rasool Bux Palijo
Javed Iqbal
Yusuf Kazzab
Nawaz Sharif
Jatindra Nath Das
Saad Hussain Rizvi
Hafiz Saeed

Kot Lakhpat Jail, officially known as Central Jail Lahore, is a prison located at Rakh Chandra (Kot Lakhpat) in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

The jail houses more than four times the 4000 prisoner capacity it was built for.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference capacity was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Human hand found in sehri for prisoners". The Nation. Archived from the original on 1 September 2010. Retrieved 15 May 2022.