In a major relief for Imran Khan, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, a special bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted bail to him.
On the 12th of May, Friday, the Pakistan Tahreek e Insaf (PTI) President, who was arrested in the corruption case, and then released on illegal arrest ground, filed for a pre-arrest bail. The Supreme Court of the Pakistan, which was scheduled to hear the matter on Friday, also reviewed the plea of pre arrest bail, and granted two weeks bail to the former Pakistan prime minister.
A division bench comprising Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz heard the Al-Qadir trust corruption case, a day after the Supreme Court termed Khan’s arrest from the IHC premises on Tuesday as “invalid and unlawful”.
Khan, 70, arrived at the court shortly after 11:30 am local time amid tight security and underwent the biometric identification process and other formalities.
Earlier, the two judges left the courtroom amid pro-Khan slogan shouting by a lawyer. The upset judges later announced that the hearing will resume after Friday prayers.
Khan’s lawyers had filed four additional requests which urged the IHC to club all the cases against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf and to direct authorities to provide details of the cases registered against him.
Khan was arrested from the premises of the IHC on Tuesday in the Al-Qadir Trust case after the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) issued an arrest warrant against him.
Stay tuned for further updates.
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