Judge hearing Imran, Qureshi bail pleas goes on leave

• Choose Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain is on go away till Sep 8 as a consequence of spouse’s sickness.
• PTI’s authorized crew information software in Choose Raja Javad Abbas’s court docket to listen to bail plea.
• Choose Abbas says he cannot hear circumstances fall underneath Official Secrets and techniques Act.

ISLAMABAD: Particular Court docket Choose Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain, who has been listening to bail pleas of incarcerated former prime minister Imran Khan and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Vice Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi in cipher case, has gone on go away till September 8.

The PTI’s authorized crew comprising counsels Babar Awan, Salman Safdar and Naeem Haider Panjotha reached courtroom the place the employees apprised them that Choose Zulqarnain was on go away as a consequence of his spouse’s sickness.

Lawyer Safdar requested the court docket employees to repair the listening to of the case on Thursday. 

In the meantime, the PTI’s authorized crew reached the courtroom of Choose Raja Javad Abbas and implored him to listen to the bail plea.

At which, the choose replied that he couldn’t hear the case as he was not the obligation choose.

“There is no such thing as a notification of the obligation choose of the Official Secrets and techniques Act. If the Islamabad Excessive Court docket can mark it, solely then I can hear it,” Choose Abbas remarked. “I can hear circumstances of 24 courts as an obligation choose however to not the extent of the Official Secrets and techniques Act.”

Lawyer Awan advised submitting an software and shifting to the excessive court docket for the listening to of the bail pleas. Choose Abbas concurred with Awan’s suggestion and mentioned the IHC would resolve on the matter.  

Choose Abbas additionally questioned how his court docket might hear the cipher case because it falls underneath the purview of particular court docket. He said that he would hear PTI’s software at 12pm right now to resolve whether or not his court docket might hear the bail pleas of the PTI leaders. 

Final month, ATC-I Choose Zulqarnain was given an extra cost of the particular court docket established underneath the Official Secrets and techniques Act to listen to matter associated to the diplomatic cipher that the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) mentioned was misplaced and utilized by former PM Imran Khan for political functions.   

The cipher case trial is being held in-camera.