‘Take me out, I don’t want to remain in jail,’ Imran Khan tells lawyers

• PTI Chairman Imran Khan is “sad and frightened”.
• He expressed “issues” throughout assembly with lawyer. 
• Khan saved at Attock jail after being convicted in graft case.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has advised his legal professionals that he doesn’t want to stay in jail, in keeping with sources within the Attock jail aware about the assembly between the ex-prime minister and his authorized advisor.

The sources advised Geo Information that Khan, charged with corruption within the Toshakhana case and sentenced to 3 years in jail, is sad and frightened as he stays holed up inside his jail cell in “distressing” circumstances.

“Take me out of right here; I do not wish to stay in jail,” the officers quoted Khan, as saying throughout his assembly together with his lawyer.

Khan’s counsel Naeem Haider Panjotha was granted entry by the jail authorities Monday to satisfy him, who after seeing the PTI chairman mentioned that the previous premier was being saved in “distressing” circumstances supplied “C-Class jail amenities”. 

Panjotha added that the PTI chief was in excessive morale regardless of all such difficulties and vowed to spend his lifetime in jail however would not bow to slavery.  

Nonetheless, the sources mentioned that the PTI chairman, in the course of the assembly together with his lawyer, conveyed his issues relating to the atmosphere on the jail with flies taking on his cell in the course of the day and bugs at night time.

The previous prime minister was arrested from his Zaman Park residence in Lahore after being convicted within the Toshakhana case with accusations of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to purchase and promote items in state possession that had been obtained throughout visits overseas and price greater than Rs140 million ($635,000).

Khan denies the allegations in opposition to him.

“Costs of misdeclaration of property have been confirmed in opposition to the PTI chairman,” Extra and Classes Decide Humayun Dilawar talked about in his judgement.

Decide Dilawar sentenced the PTI chief to three-year imprisonment, issuing arrest warrants in opposition to him and a wonderful of Rs100,000.

The decide additionally rejected Khan’s petition in opposition to the maintainability of the case.

The social gathering of the previous prime minister, who was ousted from workplace after a no-confidence movement was moved in opposition to him in April 2022, has moved the Supreme Court docket in opposition to the trial court docket’s order, in search of to declare Decide Dilawar’s verdict “null and void”.

The PTI has additionally approached the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) Chief Justice Aamer Farooq requesting Khan’s switch from Attock jail to Adiala jail.