Imran moves IHC against denial of right to defence in gifts case

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan challenged on Thursday the extra district and classes court docket’s order terminating his proper of protection within the Toshakhana case.

The previous prime minister moved the Islamabad Excessive Courtroom (IHC) towards the order, requesting it to declare the trial court docket’s yesterday’s order null and void and restoring his proper of protection.

The PTI chief additionally requested the court docket to listen to the plea immediately.

A day earlier, the trial court docket – listening to the Election Fee of Pakistan’s plea towards the PTI chief for “intentionally concealing” the presents he retained from the Toshakhana throughout his tenure because the PM – in Islamabad had rejected the witness record offered by the PTI chief, terming the witnesses irrelevant to the case.

The choice of Choose Humayun Dilawar got here because the Supreme Courtroom (SC) rejected the PTI chief’s request to remain the trial court docket’s proceedings, and requested him to attend till the IHC resolution on his pending petitions.

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Preliminary arguments accomplished

In a separate growth, preliminary arguments on the PTI chief’s attraction within the IHC for staying the classes court docket’s proceedings within the Toshakhana case had been accomplished.

Through the listening to, PTI chief’s lawyer Khawaja Haris instructed the court docket that the trial court docket can not give a closing resolution till a choice is taken on the request to switch the case to a different court docket.

“We submitted the record of witnesses to the court docket and stated that the witnesses couldn’t be obtainable in 24 hours,” the counsel argued, including that “not even a single day was given to current the witness”.

The PTI chief’s request for switch of the case to a different court docket comes on the again of his declare that decide Humayun Dilawar, who’s listening to the case, had made a Fb submit towards the PTI chief.

Commenting on the matter, IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq stated {that a} Federal Investigation Company (FIA) report relating to the matter has been obtained, which states that the submit in query was not posted on the decide’s Fb account.

In an earlier listening to, the IHC had directed its workplace to remit the difficulty of the authenticity of the posts to FIA’s Cyber Crime Wing.

Haris objected, questioning “how can a unilateral report be accepted?”

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“Such orders coming from the trial court docket present partiality; the court docket ought to restrain the trial court docket from continuing additional,” he argued.

To this, the IHC chief justice replied that “one in all your purposes is on the biasness of the trial court docket decide, you say that the bias of the decide displays from his resolution to listen to the case on a each day foundation?”

Representing the ECP, lawyer Amjad Pervez argued that the FIA’s ​​report was about the accusation regarding the decide’s Fb posts. He rhetorically requested “ought to the decide not be given justice?”

“Should not contempt proceedings have been initiated on the idea of this report?” he additional questioned.

Later, the chief justice directed the legal professionals to tell the trial court docket – the place the listening to on ECP’s plea relating to the Toshakhana case was already scheduled – that arguments had been ongoing relating to the PTI chief’s attraction within the IHC.