Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been arrested in new National Accountability Bureau (NAB) reference related to Toshakhana gifts.
A team of the anti-corruption watchdog headed by Deputy Director Mohsin Haroon arrested the couple in the Adiala Jail in the new reference related to alleged “misuse of power for acquiring Toshakhana gifts,” the sources added.
According to Geo News, the development came hours after a district and sessions court in Islamabad acquitted the former premier and his spouse in the iddat case — also known as the un-Islamic nikah case — which was the last hurdle in the couple’s release from jail.
The court accepted the couple’s pleas seeking annulment of their conviction in the iddat case. Additional Sessions Judge Muhammad Afzal Majoka announced short order reserved earlier in the day.
Khan and Bushra were sentenced to seven years in prison and awarded a fine of Rs500,000 each, in February earlier this year after a trial court found their nikah to be fraudulent as Khawar Maneka, Bushra’s ex-husband, moved the court against the couple’s marriage.
In the 28-page verdict, while referring to Maneka’s lawyer’s argument that his client was deprived of the right of Ruju — time period to normalise the relationship within the duration of iddat after divorce — the court highlighted that Maneka “remained passive for about six years” and due to that his right Ruju was in fact already expired.
Stressing Maneka’s failure to prove his case against both Khan and Bushra, the court said: “They [Khan and Bushra] are directed to be released forthwith if not required to be detained din any other case.”
“Both the petitions seeking the formation of a medical board and consultations with the religious scholars are hereby rejected,” the verdict stated.
