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RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his spouse, Bushra Bibi, on Monday have been despatched on a 15-day judicial remand in a brand new Toshakhana reference.
The event got here throughout the listening to, performed by Accountability Court docket Choose Nasir Javed Rana, at Adiala jail in Rawalpindi which pertains to a brand new reference filed by the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) in July.
The courtroom has now ordered for the couple — who appeared earlier than the decide after finishing their 10-day bodily remand on August 18 — to be produced on September 2.
Throughout the listening to of the case at present, the accused submitted a written reply within the courtroom in response to the questionnaire by NAB.
The previous prime minister and the ex-first girl have been represented by their legal professionals Zaheer Abbas Chaudhary and Salman Safdar. NAB Deputy Director Mohsen Haroon and Particular Prosecutor Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi additionally appeared on the courtroom to current their arguments.
The earlier listening to of the brand new reference was held on August 8.
The brand new Toshakhana reference in opposition to the couple got here to the fore after NAB arrested them hours after a district and classes courtroom in Islamabad acquitted Khan and Bushra within the iddat case — also referred to as the un-Islamic nikah case — which was the final hurdle within the couple’s launch from jail.
A staff of the anti-corruption watchdog headed by Deputy Director Mohsin Haroon arrested the couple within the Adiala Jail within the new reference associated to alleged “misuse of energy for buying Toshakhana presents,” the sources added.
The NAB staff rearrested Bushra Bibi after she was launched from Adiala Jail’s Gate No. 3 to fulfil her authorized obligations, the sources stated including the previous first girl will stay incarcerated on the Rawalpindi jail.
A NAB official had confirmed to The Information in January that the highest graft physique was engaged on one other reference in opposition to the cricketer-cum-politician which can be associated to the Toshakhana presents retained by him after cost of a paltry quantity.
In the meantime, an accountability courtroom’s decide had earlier refused to increase Khan’s bodily remand within the case below query when the NAB filed a Toshakhana reference in December 2023.
Following their arrest within the new Toshakhana case, each Imran and Bushra had moved the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC), stating that they been “illegally” remanded into NAB’s custody and that their arrest had affected the elemental rights of “liberty and pre-arrest”.
The authorized woes of the deposed prime minister and his partner refused to die down following the couple’s arrest within the new reference associated to state presents.
The IHC, on August 16, directed NAB’s investigating officer to go to Adiala jail, searching for the couple’s response to its questionnaire and adjourned the listening to until August 21.
NAB ought to make it clear they need to defend the arrest of PTI founder, IHC’s Justice Miangul Hassan stated.
