Imran Khan awoke on Sunday as an inmate in the high-security Attock prison in Attock city but should have been in Adiala jail in Rawalpindi, according to the order issued by an Islamabad trial court that found the former Pakistan Prime Minister guilty in a corruption case.

According to the court order, additional district and sessions judge Humayun Dilawar ordered the Islamabad police chief to arrest the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, instead it was the Punjab police that arrested Khan.

The court also ordered the Adiala jail superintendent to receive Khan, who was taken to Attock jail amid tight security.

The court order issued for the inspector-general of police (IGP), Islamabad, said: “This is to authorise and require you the IG Islamabad Police to arrest the convict Imran Khan Niazi... and to send him to Central Prison Adyala, Rawalpindi, for serving out the stated sentences,” the Dawn newspaper reported.

“This is to authorise and require you the said superintendent to receive the said convict Imran Khan Niazi into your custody in the said jail...,” said another court order issued for the Adiala jail superintendent.

However, Khan was neither arrested by the capital police nor detained at Adiala jail, the report said. It quoted sources in Punjab police as saying that the Lahore police were alerted before noon and an order was given to them to arrest Khan.

A team of Lahore police constituted under the supervision of a senior police officer was put on standby, which then reached Khan’s Zaman Park residence shortly after the verdict, the sources added.

Instead of taking Khan to a state-run hospital for an exam, a senior police officer took Khan directly to Attock jail and handed him over to the prison’s superintendent, the report said.

Attock prison is the same jail where former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was kept after his arrest following the toppling of his government by Pervez Musharraf.