- Choose Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain is on depart till Sep Eight attributable to spouse’s sickness.
- PTI’s authorized crew information software in Choose Raja Javad Abbas’s courtroom to listen to bail plea.
- Choose Abbas says he cannot hear circumstances fall below Official Secrets and techniques Act.
ISLAMABAD: Particular Court docket Choose Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, who has been listening to bail pleas of incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi in cipher case, has gone on depart till September 8.
The PTI’s authorized crew comprising counsels Babar Awan, Salman Safdar and Naeem Haider Panjotha reached courtroom the place the workers apprised them that Choose Zulqarnain was on depart attributable to his spouse’s sickness.
Lawyer Safdar requested the courtroom workers to repair the listening to of the case on Thursday.
In the meantime, the PTI’s authorized crew reached the courtroom of Choose Raja Javad Abbas and implored him to listen to the bail plea.
At which, the choose replied that he couldn’t hear the case as he was not the obligation choose.
“There is no such thing as a notification of the obligation choose of the Official Secrets and techniques Act. If the Islamabad Excessive Court docket can mark it, solely then I can hear it,” Choose Abbas remarked. “I can hear circumstances of 24 courts as an obligation choose however to not the extent of the Official Secrets and techniques Act.”
Lawyer Awan recommended submitting an software and shifting to the excessive courtroom for the listening to of the bail pleas. Choose Abbas concurred with Awan’s suggestion and stated the IHC would determine on the matter.
Choose Abbas additionally questioned how his courtroom might hear the cipher case because it falls below the purview of particular courtroom. He acknowledged that he would hear PTI’s software at 12pm as we speak to determine whether or not his courtroom might hear the bail pleas of the PTI leaders.
Final month, ATC-I Choose Zulqarnain was given an extra cost of the particular courtroom established below the Official Secrets and techniques Act to listen to matter associated to the diplomatic cipher that the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) stated was misplaced and utilized by former PM Imran Khan for political functions.
The cipher case trial is being held in-camera.