Human rights activist Ansar Burney said he had information that release orders had been issued and written orders would be received within two to three days. Chisti is expected to reach Pakistan within seven days.
Dr Chisti, an 80-year-old Pakistani virologist, was sentenced to life imprisonment in Ajmer after 19 years of trial. The Karachi University professor was arrested on charges of the murder of one Idris. The murder allegedly took place during a group clash on the premises of the shrine of sufi saint Khuwaja Moinuddin Chisti Ajmeri in Ajmer, Rajasthan on March 14, 1992.
What appeared to be an altercation among cousins at the Baitul Salim Manzil reportedly turned bloody and Idris died after he sustained serious wounds from a gunshot.
A case was registered in the Ganj police station in Ajmer, Dr Chisti, was put on a prolonged trial along with three others — Yasir Chisti, Akil Chisti and Farooq Chisti — under Sections, 307, 302, 324, 323 of the Indian Penal Code and then sentenced to life imprisonment.
Burney had appealed to Indian President Shri Pratibha Patil and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to consider the case on humanitarian grounds in the light of the goodwill generated between India and Pakistan over the release of Kashmir Singh and Gopal Das, Indian nationals who were facing death sentences in Pakistan.
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