ISLAMABAD – The Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) Tuesday deferred the listening to of an enchantment of PTI chief Imran Khan in opposition to his conviction within the Toshakhana legal case.
A division bench of IHC comprising Chief Justice of IHC Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri conducted listening to of the petition moved by Imran Khan.
Khawaja Haris, Barrister Gohar, Babar Awan, Latif Khosa and Sher Afzal Marwat have been amongst Imran’s counsels who appeared earlier than the court docket to characterize Imran Khan whereas Advocate Amjad Pervaiz represented the Election Fee of Pakistan (ECP).
Throughout the listening to, ECP lawyer Pervaiz urged extra time for preparation and that the hearing be adjourned until August 28. Nonetheless, Khosa opposed the request, following which the IHC advertjourned the listening to until tomorrow.
On the outset of the listening to, Marwat infashioned the court docket that Imran’s authorized workforce remains to be not being allowed to satisfy Khan at Attock jail. At this, Justice Aamer remarked, “I can not perceive why have you ever been barred from assembly him.” He added, “I had even stated that two to 3 legal professionals could go to satisfy him and that there shouldn’t be a crowd.”
Then, Babar Awan stated that even after the court docket’s order, the jail authorities weren’t permitting Imran’s legal professionals to satisfy him. The IHC decide stated that previously, a jail official had stated that they might enable a gathering and that on the following, the explanation for not permitting was that legal professionals had gone after the assembly timings had ended.
Justice Aamer stated that the case report was wanted issuing a discover on the enchantment and requested if the report was availready with the court docket. To this, the ECP legislationyer knowledgeable the court docket that he had not been in a position to safe the verified case rewire but. He requested the court docket to grant him applicable time to organize for the case. At this juncture, Latif Khosa argued that they weren’t even given the proper to defend or have been heard. There was nice haste at the moment. He additionally opposed giving the ECP lawyer additional time and urged the court docket to resolve at the moment on the plea in search of Imran’s launch on bail.
He requested the court docket to approve the plea in search of suspension of Imran’s sentence as Imran was in jail at the moment and was not being supplied with any services.