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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Wednesday issued an apology, once more, within the district and classes courtroom pertaining to the case of threatening a feminine decide, Zeba Chaudhry.
Khan’s apology got here throughout his look on the courtroom of Judicial Justice of the Peace Islamabad, Malik Aman, amid the listening to of the case.
Simply months after his ouster in April 2023, the previous prime minister gave a fiery speech directed in the direction of Islamabad’s prime police officers and decide Chaudhry threatening to not “spare” them and file instances towards them for “torturing” his get together chief Shahbaz Gill.
Khan had notably named Chaudhry throughout his political rally held on the F-9 park in Islamabad.
Through the listening to, the PTI chief maintained that he was apologetic when he visited the stated decide’s courtroom earlier.
“I went to the courtroom of the feminine decide and stated that if my assertion offended anybody, I apologise,” Khan advised Choose Aman whereas on the podium.
Over a month after making the threats, the PTI chairman went to the decide’s courtroom to supply an apology. However the police closed the room of the feminine decide and advised him that she was on depart.
“I’ve come to apologise to judicial Justice of the Peace Zeba Chaudhry,” Khan advised the courtroom reader to convey his message to the decide and bear witness to his arrival.
In the meantime, on the district and classes courtroom within the federal capital at present, he spoke about looking for authorized motion in a passionate speech and expressed remorse over his assertion. “I apologise if I crossed the road.”
The previous premier maintained he hasn’t damaged a single pot to this point.
“I fashioned a political get together for the supremacy of justice 27 years in the past, I’ve not damaged a single pot to this point,” Khan stated.
The case
A case had been registered towards the previous prime minister underneath the Anti-Terrorism Act for threatening Choose Chaudhry and senior cops of the Islamabad police throughout a public rally in August final yr.
The IHC had then began contempt of courtroom proceedings towards the previous prime minister.
In a while, the excessive courtroom eliminated the phobia fees and in addition pardoned the PTI chief after he had tendered an apology within the contempt case.
However an identical case had been filed towards the PTI chief — after the registration of the primary data report (FIR) towards him — and remains to be pending earlier than the classes courtroom.