LAHORE - Federal Law Minister Farooq H Naek has said the government was considering to start evening courts, which would ensure speedy justice to the general public and bail procedure will also be made easy in specific cases. He expressed these views while talking to journalists after his visit to the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Monday. The minister said that he also met with Indian prisoner Sarabjeet Singh inside jail and he had asked the superintendent jail concerned to hand over the file of Sarabjeet to him for further consideration. He said the case of the Indian prisoner would be considered on humanitarian grounds however the final authority in this regard was the President of Pakistan. Naek said that Singh's case had been dismissed by the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He said that many prisoners in the jail had demanded him of ending the death sentence and the government was looking into it very keenly also. The govt has asked the judges of High Courts and Supreme Courts to expedite the process of hearing especially of murder cases, he maintained. He was of the view that with expediting the hearing process and making easy the bail process in the cases containing punishment less than five years 40 per cent population of the jails would be cut. The minister said, "Our jails were overcrowded by the inmates and the government was on a programme to make reforms in the jails and amendments in the constitutions in this regards were being framed and the Law ministry would shortly present its recommendations to the cabinet and then the same would be tabled in the Parliament for final approval. To a question he said that the purpose of his visit to Kotlakhpat jail was to observe the problems of the inmates and during this he also met Sarbajeet Singh who was in jail and Sarbajeet was physically quite fit. He pledged that he would take up the issue with his counterpart in India over the poor health of the Pakistani prisoners who were released by the Indian authorities in the recent past. The minister in the end distributed toys and gifts among the children residing in the jails with their mothers who were jailed against various charges. Certain reporters during the visit of the minister had to face difficulties to enter the jails and they protested out side the jail main gate then on the intervention of the jail authorities they were allowed to enter the jail.