Former Prime Minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder, Imran Khan, has been booked in a brand new case by Rawalpindi police simply hours after he secured bail within the Toshakhana 2.0 case.
The Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC) granted bail to the 71-year-old politician on Wednesday. Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb accredited his bail plea in opposition to surety bonds value Rs1 million every.
After the IHC accredited his plea, the PTI founder is now not needed in another case inside Islamabad’s jurisdiction.
Nevertheless, late on Wednesday, the Rawalpindi police arrived on the Adiala Jail and formally “arrested” him in reference to a brand new case filed on the New City police station.
In accordance with a police spokesperson, the case stems from a PTI protest on September 27 and entails costs of incitement to arson and property injury below Part 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) and related sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC).
An anti-terrorism court docket will now begin listening to the case at Adiala Jail at the moment. Police investigators are anticipated to request Khan’s bodily remand throughout at the moment’s listening to.
The FIR names a number of PTI leaders, together with Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ali Amin Gandapur and Seemabia Tahir, Amir Mughar and Aliya Hamza, as co-accused.
The FIR ranges costs of terrorism, tried homicide, vandalism, destroying public and state property, and interference in authorities operations, in opposition to the accused. It additionally claims {that a} petrol bottle was discovered with a suspect, Tahir, on the protest scene.
Imran and his spouse, Bushra Bibi, had been arrested within the case on July 13, shortly after the previous first couple was acquitted by a district and periods court docket of Islamabad within the iddat case — also called the un-Islamic nikah case.
The previous first woman was launched final month from jail within the Toshakhana 2.0 case after spending round 9 months behind bars.
Their case was beforehand heard by the accountability court docket of the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB). Nevertheless, it was transferred to the FIA in keeping with the Supreme Court docket’s verdict restoring amendments to the anti-corruption legal guidelines.