- Apex courtroom summons Imran Khan on subsequent listening to on August 9.
- 3-member SC bench hears PTI chief’s plea towards homicide case.
- Khan seeks quashing of FIR in senior lawyer’s homicide case.
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Monday bought one other aid as Supreme Courtroom (SC) restricted the police from arresting the previous prime minister until August 9 within the case of senior lawyer Abdul Razzaq Shar’s homicide in Quetta.
The deposed prime minister, who was ousted in a no-confidence vote final April, has a petition subjudice within the SC towards his nomination within the case associated to Shar’s taking pictures in Quetta in June.
Advocate Shar was gunned down by unidentified individuals on three bikes whereas he was on his approach to the Balochistan Excessive Courtroom (BHC) on June 6.
A primary data report (FIR) had been registered towards Khan, and others on the criticism of the slain lawyer’s son, Advocate Siraj Ahmed, in Quetta, underneath the costs of homicide, Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and different provisions.
Particular Assistant to the Prime Minister (SAPM) Ataullah Tarar held the PTI chairman “straight accountable” for the homicide, claiming that the focused killing was associated to a treason case towards Imran underneath Article 6 of the Structure, which Shar was pleading.
A 3-member bench comprising Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, and Justice Mussarat Hilali directed Khan to seem earlier than the courtroom on August 9.
On the outset of the proceedings, the PTI chief appeared earlier than the courtroom as directed by the bench on the final listening to.
Nonetheless, the arguments from the complainant’s lawyer could not be given because of his absence.
In the meantime, the Balochistan advocate common requested the courtroom to order the previous prime minister to seem earlier than the investigation officer (IO) within the case.
At this, Justice Naqvi inquired why the PTI chief was required to affix the probe.
Justice Afridi then directed the federal government lawyer to take directives on the explanation for together with Khan within the investigations and state them to the courtroom earlier than the complainant’s lawyer on the subsequent listening to.
Later, the courtroom adjourned the listening to until August 9 on the request of the case’s complainant.
Khan had moved the SC to quash the FIR that nominated him within the homicide case of the advocate Shar. Apart from bail within the case, he additionally requested to put aside the Balochistan Excessive Courtroom’s (BHC) resolution to reject an identical petition.
Nonetheless, the two-member bench of the SC comprising Justice Ijazul Ahsen and Justice Ayesha A Malik rejected Khan’s bail plea and refused to droop the BHC’s order with out listening to different events within the matter.
The courtroom held {that a} two-member bench of the apex courtroom couldn’t droop the order handed by the realized excessive courtroom’s two-member bench, directing the PTI chief to method the chief justice of Pakistan (CJP) for fixation of the case earlier than a three-member bench.