In the new Toshakhana case, past Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan and his family Bushra Bibi were given a notice to the National Accountability Bureau on Thursday, according to Pakistan-based Dawn.
Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi, who were taken into custody after being found innocent in the iddat scenario, have filed a petition claiming that their basic liberties were violated after being unlawfully remanded in NAB’s prison.
According to a Dawn report, the department chair that includes IHC Chief Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz originally considered the couple’s petition on July 25. Imran Khan’s attorney, but, requested that Amir Farooq, the IHC’s general justice, recuse himself.
Khan had filed a complaint against him with the Supreme Judicial Council ( SJC), so Farooq should not be hearing the case, he claimed. The attorney requested that the case be moved to a different couch.
Although Justice Imtiaz was away on his summer vacation and the earlier bench was disbanded, Farooq still had to create a new couch. Justices Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Arbab Muhammad Tahir have moved the situation to a distinct section.
Meanwhile, the Lahore High Court’s ( LHC ) Justice Syed Shahbaz Ali Rizvi on Thursday overruled an objection to Bushra Bibi’s petition against her arrest in the third Toshakhana case, according to Dawn report.
The judge set the petition’s schedule for a reading and removed the registrar’s company’s issue to its continued existence. Advocate Sardar Latif Khosa served as the petitioner for Bushra Bibi.
According to the petition, Bushra Bibi and her husband were given loan in the Toshakhana situation. Nevertheless, they were re-arrested in a new situation with malicious intent, Dawn reported.
During the imprisonment in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail, it was claimed that feminine authorities abused and humiliated the applicant. The petitioner claimed that as a result of her social victimization, she was detained without a NAB warrant and imprisoned.
It requested that Bushra Bibi’s imprisonment be made unlawful and that the court take action against the detention director and the alleged abuse on the applicant.
Imran Khan ( 71 ), who served as Pakistan’s Prime Minister from 2018 to 2022, has been incarcerated in Adiala Jail since August 2023 on multiple charges, including the Toshakhana case, the cypher case and the unlawful marriage case. His wife has also been a prisoner for decades.
According to Geo News, a judge has suspended his sentence in the Toshakhana situation while other courts have overturned his beliefs in the cases involving the cypher and the iddat, both. However, when NAB detained Imran Khan and his wife on new charges involving the purchase of position gifts, their hopes were thwarted.
After being found innocent in the iddat case, Imran Khan’s chances of release from prison decreased more, according to Geo News. Imran Khan’s arrest on May 9, 2023, sparked widespread rallies all over Pakistan. Due to Imran Khan’s arrest, the PTI staff were furious and the protests took place in far-away and in big cities.
