An anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) in Rawalpindi had summoned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder, who’s already behind bars in cipher and graft instances, in May 9 instances on Tuesday.
Jailed former prime minister Imran Khan was on Tuesday arrested in a case associated to the attack on the Pakistan Army headquarters in Rawalpindi on May 9 final yr, quickly after his launch warrant was issued in the cipher case.
An anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) in Rawalpindi had summoned the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder, who’s already behind bars in cipher and graft instances, in May 9 instances on Tuesday. However, Khan attended the court docket’s proceedings through video hyperlink as he couldn’t be produced in the court docket by Adiala jail authorities owing to safety issues.
Judge Ijaz Asif of the Anti-Terrorism Court Rawalpindi carried out hearings of no less than 12 instances linked with the May 9 riots in opposition to Khan and others.
During the proceedings, police chief of the Royal Artillery Bazar Police Station, which is in the neighborhood of the General Headquarters (GHQ), knowledgeable the court docket that Khan was arrested in the GHQ attack case as he was nominated in the case.
Police additionally requested for 71-year-old Khan’s bodily remand however the decide turned down the plea and requested police to meet him on the jail for probe.
On Monday, the particular court docket shaped to hear instances underneath the Official Secrets Act had issued his launch orders in the cipher case.
Judge Abul Hasnat Zulqarnain issued the discharge order of Khan, stating that the previous premier’s bail had been permitted and he shall be launched if not needed in some other case.
Despite having the discharge order, Khan stays behind bars due to being arrested in the Toshakhna and 190 million pound Al-Qadir Trust scandal.
On May 9, 2023, violent protests erupted after the arrest of Khan by paramilitary Rangers in Islamabad. Over 20 navy installations and state buildings, together with the military headquarters in Rawalpindi, had been broken or torched in the violent protests that adopted Khan’s arrest in a corruption case.
The celebration bumped into bother after the May 9 violence by its supporters. Hundreds of rioters had been arrested in the times after the attack and booked on varied costs.
Khan and several other of his celebration leaders have been going through quite a few instances for the reason that ouster of the celebration from energy in April 2022 and later in the wake of the May 9 violence.
Khan’s opponent alleged that he was behind the violence, a cost he denied.
He was ousted by way of a vote of no-confidence in April 2022. He was incarcerated on August 5 final yr, after an Islamabad court docket sentenced him to three years in jail in the Toshakhana case. He was lodged in the Attock District Jail to serve his jail time period.
Later, his sentence was suspended by the Islamabad High Court, however then he was arrested in the cipher case and remained in the Attock jail on judicial remand. He was later shifted to Adiala jail.
