ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan has challenged a decision of the lower court which upheld his arrest warrants in the Toshakhana case.
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On Thursday, the lower court rejected Imran Khan’s plea seeking the suspension of non-bailable arrest warrants issued in the Toshakhana case, saying “[…] it is concluded that the application is not justified by law as well as fact which is hereby rejected.”
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The verdict stated that the applicant has “prayed that in view of the undertaking given by him and the sureties offered by him to the satisfaction of this court, the order dated 13.03.2023 may kindly be recalled and suspend the warrant of arrest.
“Keeping in view the law and order situation created by the applicant, he has lost some of the normal rights granted by procedural as well as substantive laws and he has to actually surrender before the court due to his defiance of the court process.
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“Such eventuality is never appreciated by the court and it is regarded as willful default.”
A legal team of the former prime minister on Friday (today) filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday, a day after the the district and sessions court refused to suspend his arrest warrant and summoned him on March 18 to attending the hearing.
عمران خان نے وارنٹ منسوخی کی درخواست خارج ہونے کا حکم اسلام آباد ہائیکورٹ میں چیلنج کر دیا آج ہی سماعت کی استدعا ، ہائیکورٹ کی دائری برانچ نے بائیو میٹرک نا ہونے سمیت مختلف نوعیت کے اعتراضات عائد کر دئیے
— Saqib Bashir (@saqibbashir156) March 17, 2023
Khan’s legal team also requested hearing of the case today
