RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi are anticipated to be indicted within the new Toshakhana case on the subsequent listening to.
The brand new Toshakhana case’s listening to in opposition to the incarcerated former premier and the ex-former first girl was held at a makeshift court docket in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail on Monday.
The copies of the challan (cost sheet) submitted by the Federal Investigation Company (FIA) to the court docket have been additionally offered to the couple.
The proceedings of the brand new Toshakhana case began final week after the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) was barred from pursuing the matter and the case was transferred to the FIA in step with the Supreme Court docket’s verdict restoring amendments to the anti-corruption legal guidelines.
The primary listening to was performed by Particular Court docket Central Choose Shahrukh Arjumand in Adiala Jail.
At as we speak’s listening to, the FIA prosecutor informed the court docket that the bail plea of each the accused was filed below the NAB legal guidelines. He added that the brand new Toshakhana case was transferred to the FIA and below the legal guidelines of FIA, the applying doesn’t represent bail plea.
After the NAB amendments, that is the primary case that has been transferred to the FIA. The case have to be checked out below the FIA guidelines, the prosecutor stated.
The accused ought to both make an modification to the prevailing bail software or submit a contemporary plea, the prosecutor additional added.
After listening to the arguments, the court docket declared the bail’s software ineffective and consequently, the PTI founder lawyer Salman Safdar submitted a brand new bail software.
The PTI additionally gave preliminary arguments on the couple’s post-arrest bail software.
Subsequently, the court docket adjourned the listening to of the case until September 26.
