Pakistan courts grant bail to ex-PM Imran Khan in circumstances filed in opposition to him

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted bail in three circumstances whilst a courtroom issued a non-bailable arrest warrant in opposition to him within the Toshakhana case.

New Delhi,UPDATED: Mar 1, 2023 08:12 IST

Former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan was granted bail in three circumstances filed in opposition to him (File photograph)

By India Today World Desk: Two courts in Islamabad granted interim bail to former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan in three circumstances on Tuesday. This got here whilst a classes courtroom issued a non-bailable arrest warrant in opposition to him within the Toshakhana case for his repeated failure to seem earlier than the courtroom.

Imran Khan was required to seem for the listening to within the 4 circumstances and he travelled from Lahore to Islamabad for his first look within the federal capital after he was shot at a public rally in November final yr.

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The three circumstances wherein he was granted bail embody a prohibited funding case, a terrorism case and one for tried homicide.

Hundreds of his supporters adopted Imran Khan on his option to the courts whereas chanting and overlaying his automotive with flower petals.

In the fourth case – the Toshakhana case – the previous Pakistan prime minister was charged with unlawfully promoting items that he acquired because the premier from the state depository known as Toshakhana. Imran Khan’s legal professionals stated they’d transfer the courtroom to cancel the warrant as a result of he was delayed from showing for the listening to after showing in three courts in the course of the course of the day. They added that there the roads within the capital metropolis had been crammed with Imran Khan’s supporters and led to site visitors jams.

The ousted prime minister’s supporters have threatened countrywide protests if he’s arrested. In February, Imran Khan known as on his supporters to supply themselves for arrest in what he known as the ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ (fill the jail motion). It got here after sedition circumstances had been filed in opposition to Tehreek-e-Insaf Senior Vice-President Fawad Chaudhry and former member of the National Assembly Shandana Gulzar.

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Mar 1, 2023