ISLAMABAD: The Registrar’s Office of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday raised objections to the petition challenging the arrest warrant of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case.
According to the registrar office, the PTI chief’s biometric is not available. How can the High Court hear the same matter which it has already decided? The office also questioned.
Earlier today, the former prime minister challenged an Islamabad court’s decision to reject a plea to suspend the arrest warrant issued against him in the gift fraud case.
Khan, who is confined to his Zaman Park residence in Lahore in defiance of a court order directing him to appear before the court, filed the petition through his lawyer Khawaja Haris.
In his petition, the PTI chairman requested that the “undertaking be accepted and the police be restrained from making arrests”.
The PTI chief also assured to appear in the Islamabad court tomorrow (Saturday), requesting the court to hear his plea immediately.
“[…] non-bailable warrant of arrest has been issued by this court just for the appearance of the applicant. The applicant is ready and willing to appear before this court on the fixed date i.e. 18.03.2023 and he has given his undertaking in this regard,” the petition read.
“It is settled law that the purpose of issuing a non-bailable warrant of arrest is to ensure the attendance of the accused and the bail has served the purpose of the warrant. The arrest and detention of the petitioner will serve no purpose and is humiliating.” It will go. Just nothing.”
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An Islamabad court on Thursday rejected Khan’s plea to suspend the non-bailable arrest warrant issued in the Toshakhana case.
Additional District and Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal while pronouncing the reserved judgment directed the concerned authorities to arrest the former prime minister and produce him in the court on March 18.
He said that this decision has been taken after examining every aspect of the law, hoping that the petitioners will enjoy reading the detailed decision.
Imran Khan was indicted in the reference on February 28, even before that, his continued absence from the hearing was contested several times. Later, the court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for the PTI chairman.
The party on Tuesday requested the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to suspend Khan’s non-bailable arrest warrant in the Toshakhana case, but the high court directed the ousted prime minister’s lawyer to move the trial court as his arrest It was ordered. according to law”
