Islamabad:
The president of the Supreme Court, Yahya Afridi, made clear on Wednesday that the Supreme Court would not allow prolonged postponements in the bail requests of the founder of PTI Imran Khan, which is heard in relation to multiple cases linked to the violence of May 9, 2023.
A three -member bank led by the President of Justice Agidi, and including Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui and Judge Miangul Hasan Aurengzeb, made appeals against the June 24 decision of the Superior Court of Lahore (LHC), in which a bank led by Judge Shahbaz Ali Rizvi had dismissed the requests for bail of Imran.
During the procedures, the president of the Supreme Court observed that the Prosecutor’s Office would first have to cross the threshold of establishing how the rejection of the LHC bond could be sustained. “We will first listen to the Prosecutor’s Office,” he said.
The hearing began with an assistant lawyer informing the bank that the special prosecutor Zulfiqar Naqvi could not appear due to food poisoning and was currently admitted to a hospital. He requested that the matter be postponed until next week.
However, the president of the Supreme Court replied that the matter would take place on Thursday (today). The lawyer Salman Safdar, who represents the founder of PTI, opposed the postponement request and urged the court to at least allow them to discuss.
He pointed out that the LHC had dismissed the bail statement of his client in November last year after six months of pendencia, during which 16 hearings were held and eight different prosecutors were changed. “The Prosecutor’s Office repeatedly requested.
The President of the Aphridi Court assured the defense that the matter would not be subject to unnecessary delays. The lawyer Safdar requested that the members of the family of the founder of PTI, who were present in the court, could go to the bank.
However, the president of the Supreme Court rejected the request, stating: “We will only listen to the lawyer. We will not allow family members to speak in court.” The audience was attended by the sisters of the founder of PTI along with high -level leaders. Later, the bank postponed more procedures until Thursday (today).
In his detailed verdict, LHC judge, Syed Shahbaz Ali Rizvi, and Judge Tariq Mahmood Bajwa had said: “In this point of view of the argument of the matter provided by the scholarly lawyer for the petitioner (Imran Khan) in the sense that on May 9, 2023, the petitioner was in the jail it is not necessary that it is not necessary.”
In its detailed verdict, the Bank reproduced the statements of two police officers, the prosecution witnesses, who claimed to have secretly assisted the meetings of the PTI in which the founder of the party allegedly instructed other party leaders to attack the military facilities in case of their imminent arrest of the IHC.
The bank noted that the witnesses’s statements should not be qualified as late.
He said that the role assigned to the petitioner, evident by the statements of the witnesses, attracted the provisions of Section 120-B (punishment for criminal conspiracy) and 121-A (conspiracy to commit a crime of riding or trying to free the war against the country) from the Pakistan Criminal Code.
The Bank said that the statements of the Prima Facie witnesses reflected that the conspiracy and the embeddation of the crimes committed on May 9 were perpetrated by the petitioner on May 4 in the rest area of Chakri, Rawalpindi, on May 7 and May 9 in LaHore.
