A video of a prisoner using a mobile phone while sitting in the office of the deputy superintendent of police - in the presence of a staff member - has been shared widely on social media, with the jail’s deputy superintendent saying that he is being framed by his subordinate.

In the video, a person holding the camera walks into the office of DS Kamran Ahmed Sheikh. In the room, he finds a man with headphones engrossed in a cell phone. The man is apparently a prisoner at the Malir Jail.

Then the person making the video, believed to be Assistant Superintendent Nabi Dad, asks a staff member who is on the office why the prisoner was allowed use of cell phone.

He replies that it was done “on the orders of Kamran sahab”, who is the deputy superintendent.

In response, DS Kamran Sheikh has shared a voice note with the media in which he says that the prisoner was found at 8:30am, at which he wasn’t on duty.

The voice note also raises questions include how a prisoner was able to leave the prisoners barracks and make his way to the deputy superintendent’s room in the officers’ block. He asked who opened his office and who gave the order? “What was the duty officer doing at that time?”

He suggested that the video was staged and an attempt to malign him. He said he has written a letter to the Sindh police chief in which he has raised similar questions.

“Actually, we have an ongoing dispute. He (Nabi Dad) was illegally appointed and the high court has removed him. But no one is saying anything to him because he is very powerful and part of the jail’s corrupt mafia,” the voice note continues.