Who is khalil chisti

The Supreme Court has freed a Pakistani doctor who spent 20 years in jail or detention in India for murder. Khalil Chishti, 80, can now return home to Pakistan with no restrictions. The court dropped the murder charge against the scientist and said he had served enough time for his conviction of "causing voluntary harm".

He was allowed to go home in May on humanitarian grounds for six months and returned to India in November with his wife Mehrunissa and son Tariq. Dr Chishti has always denied the murder charge and says he was framed.

On Wednesday, Justices P Sathasivam and Ranjan Gogoi said that as Dr Chishti had already served 14 months in an Indian jail, the "ends of justice will be met by serving him with the period of imprisonment already undergone", the Press Trust of India reported. Who is Khalil Chishty? Dr Chishty did not know that he would not return home to Pakistan for the next two decades.

Dr Khalil Chishty, a Pakistani scientist who has spent many years at a prison in Ajmer has been granted bail by the Supreme Court. Human rights activists have been pleading for assistance for him for years. Supreme Court to hear Khalil Chishty's bail plea today. The Supreme Court will today hear a bail petition by Khalil Chishty, who is lodged at the Ajmer Central Jail in connection with a murder case. Dr Chishty is an year-old Pakistani virologist and has been in jail for years.

Pak prisoner's family in India to plead for his release. The family of ailing Pakistani prisoner Dr Khalil Chishty has come to India all the way from Karachi to plead for his release. The year old virologist, who is critically ill, is serving life sentence in the Ajmer Central Jail. His mercy plea has been given clearance by the Rajasthan Chief Minister, but he has still not been released.

Home National Pakistani scientist walks out of jail after 20 years. Pakistani scientist walks out of jail after 20 years. Dr Khalil Chishti, a Pakistani microbiologist who was fighting a legal battle for two decades after being embroiled in a murder case in one of his visits to his ancestor place in Ajmer, was finally granted bail on Wednesday.

It is expected that his reunion with his family members and Pakistan is now only a matter of few days after the Supreme Court took a sympathetic view of his release and many other Pakistani Prisoners like him languishing in Indian jails. He walked out of the jail at pm, after his brother Jameel Chishti furnished two bail bonds of Rs 50, each and a personal surety of Rs 1 lakh.

The year-old doctor from Pakistan entered the Ajmer Jail last January after being sentenced to life imprisonment in the murder case.