LAHORE:
Through hard work, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s legal team finally managed to file three applications in the Lahore High Court on Sunday night, seeking protection bonds in two FIRs. registered at Ramna Police Station in Islamabad and Toshakhana. case.
Earlier today, staff at the Chief Justice’s House and Lahore High Court refused to receive a request from PTI’s legal team despite their efforts to secure bail for the former prime minister amid of fears of arrest.
However, late at night, the defense lawyer for petitioner Imran Khan Niazi, Azhar Siddique, confirmed that they “visited the Chief Justice House where the Clerk of the Lahore High Court was present and the numbers of his three petitions they had been assigned and set for the March 6 hearing. (today)”.
Lawyer Azhar Siddique said: “It is an established principle that the police cannot arrest the person whose bail is submitted and set for the hearing and, if they do, it is in contempt of court and amounts to flouting the judgments of superior . court”.
Earlier, staff members deployed to the Lahore Chief Justice’s House told the PTI legal team that this was not the appropriate place to apply, and asked them to approach the high court.
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Subsequently, members of the PTI legal team, including Fawad Chaudhry, lead counsel Azhar Siddique and others, approached the Lahore High Court, where the police officers also denied their request for bail, arguing that they were not authorized to receive the request.
After realizing that the LHC doors were not going to open despite their insistence, the legal team left the bail application in a small window by the main gate near GPO Chowk.
Adovate Siddique expressed concern over the refusal to consider the bail request, saying the court granted bail to PML-N leader Hamza Shehbaz Sharif on Saturday, which was also a day off.
“Due to the urgency of this matter, Imran Khan’s bail petition must be heard to send a message that the courts are available to all for the administration of justice,” he added.
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The protection bonds were sought from one of the two FIRs registered at the Ramna Police Station in Islamabad.
Ramna police filed FIR 153/2023 under sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) against several PTI leaders, including President Imran Khan, and dozens of party workers. for alleged vandalism outside. Islamabad Judicial Complex.
Ramna police station had registered another case against 20 PTI leaders and 150 party activists. The content of the FIR is almost identical to the previous one. According to the FIR, a crowd under the leadership of Imran Khan arrived at the Islamabad High Court and attempted to enter the court premises.
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The FIR also claimed that party workers broke down the main gate and removed other obstacles placed, damaging official property and threatening officials on duty.
On Tuesday, the former prime minister, accompanied by his supporters, arrived at the Islamabad court complex to appear in court and face multiple cases on charges of prohibited financing and terrorism.
According to the details of the case, a group of 2,800 “armed PTI workers stormed the court complex under the leadership of Imran Khan.”
The FIR affirmed that the workers carried firearms, stones and sticks and that they also tore up the lists of causes of the courts.
“The workers broke the benches and chairs of the security personnel and also threatened the security personnel with death,” the police said in the FIR. The police added that the “PTI mob also broke the security cameras installed in the courthouse.”
The third bail request relates to the Toshakhana (gift depository) case in which a district and sessions court in Islamabad issued non-bailable arrest warrants for deposed Prime Minister Imran Khan for his continued absence.
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