' SALEEM AKHTAR, J.-- In all these petitions common question of law is involved.
2. The petitioners are being tried under the Suppression of Terrorist Activities (Special Courts), Act, 1975. They had challenged the notification issued by the Home Secretary, Government of Sindh, Karachi under subsection (3) of section 3 of the said Act notifying the sitting of Judge for the purpose of conducting trial inside Central Prison, Karachi. Their petitions were dismissed by the High Court by the impugned judgment.
3. Leave is granted in all the petitions to consider the questions whether place of criminal trial could be fixed inside the prison under the relevant provisions of law and the Constitution and whether the impugned judgment has correctly applied the law laid down in Asif Ali Zardari v. Special Judge (Offences in Banks) and 10 others (PLD 1992 Karachi 437) and Mairaj Muhammad Khan v. The State (PLD 1978 Karachi 308).