A special court dismissed on Thursday Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s bail petitions in the cipher case.
A case was registered against Imran and Qureshi under Sections 5 and 9 of the Official Secrets Act, 1923.
Earlier in the day, the same court confirmed the pre-arrest bail granted to former federal minister and PTI leader Asad Umar in the same case.
The case in question involves the alleged “misuse” of a diplomatic cipher’s contents, which ex-premier Imran used as evidence of a coup attempt.
Today, Imran’s lawyer Salman Safdar, Qureshi’s representatives Babar Awan, Ali Bukhari and Shoaib Shaheen and Asad Umar, through his counsel Awan, reached the Federal Judicial Complex in Islamabad to request bail for their respective clients.
The judge of the special court that will hear the cases filed under the Official Secrets Act from all around the nation is Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) Judge Abul Hasnaat Muhammad Zulqarnain.
Judge Zulqarnain withheld the decision during today’s session after PTI’s attorneys finished speaking.
A day earlier, the special court extended Imran and Qureshi’s judicial remand till September 26 in the cipher case.
