The Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) at the moment (Monday) will resume listening to on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s plea looking for suspension of sentence by the trial court docket’s Further District and Classes Decide (ADSJ) Humayun Dilawar within the Toshakhana case.
A two-member bench, comprising Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, will conduct the listening to, with arguments anticipated by the Election Fee of Pakistan’s lawyer, Amjad Parvez, who wasn’t capable of seem earlier than the court docket as a consequence of ailing well being over the last listening to on Friday.
The court docket adjourned the listening to until Monday (at the moment) on the request of his assistant counsel and ordered the ECP counsel to current arguments at the moment. It had additionally directed the electoral authority to make different preparations as a result of unavailability of the lawyer.
PTI lawyer, Latif Khosa, accomplished his arguments within the final listening to.
Earlier this month, a trial court docket had sentence Khan to three-year in jail and imposed a wonderful of Rs100,000 earlier this month.
Khan challenged the decision and approached the IHC for his launch and suspension of the conviction. ECP, in the meantime, had filed a non-public grievance in opposition to Khan in the identical case.
What’s Toshakhana case?
Beneath the foundations governing Toshakhana — a Persian phrase that means “treasure home” — authorities officers can hold presents if they’ve a low price, whereas they need to pay a dramatically decreased charge to the federal government for extravagant objects.
The Toshakhana has been beneath a microscope ever for the reason that emergence of the allegations that Khan bought the presents he obtained as prime minister at throwaway charges and offered them off within the open marketplace for staggering earnings.
The 70-year-old cricketer-turned-politician was accused of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to purchase and promote presents in state possession that have been obtained throughout visits overseas and price greater than Rs140 million ($635,000).
The presents included watches given by a royal household, in response to authorities officers, who’ve alleged beforehand that Khan’s aides offered them in Dubai.
Furthermore, seven wristwatches, six made by watchmaker Rolex, and the costliest a “Grasp Graff restricted version” valued at 85 million Pakistani rupees ($385,000), was additionally among the many presents.
A reference was forwarded by Nationwide Meeting Speaker Raja Pervez Ashraf to the Election Fee asking it to probe the matter.
In October 2022, the electoral physique additionally declared the previous premier responsible of corrupt practices and filed a grievance in an Islamabad court docket.