PTI files petition
ISLAMABAD: PTI filed a petition in Islamabad High Court, seeking the transfer of the party’s chairman from Attock Jail to Adiala Jail. PTI also sought A-Class facilities for Imran Khan in jail being former prime minister of Pakistan.
In the petition, PTI chairman’s lawyer, Naeem Hyder Punjotha requested the court to provide ‘A’ class facilities to the former prime minister in jail.
The petitioner also asked for permission for the PTI’s legal team members to meet with the party’s chairman in prison.
The counsel urged the high court to allow the PTI chairman’s personal doctor, family members, and senior party leaders to meet him.
Punjotha stated that the jail superintendent contacted him to get the signature of the PTI chairman at 12:00 noon.
“I informed him that your delay in the meeting would cause a delay in our petition to challenge the order.”
“The jail official advised me to visit at 12:00 as the PTI chief would be awake at that time,” the lawyer revealed.
“We plan to visit Attock Jail at 12:00 noon to meet the party’s chairman,” he added.
After his arrest in the Toshakhana case on Saturday, police transferred Imran Khan to Attock Jail.
Following his conviction of “corrupt practices” in the Toshakhana case, the police arrested former prime minister from his residence in Zaman Park, Lahore.
A district and sessions Judge Humayun Dilawar sentenced Imran Khan to three years in prison after declaring him guilty of corruption.
Judge Humayun Dilawar leaves for UK for training: PTI files petition
Meanwhile, Additional District and Sessions Judge Humayun Dilawar has flown to the United Kingdom for ‘Judicial Training on Human Rights and the Rule of Law’. He left for the UK a day after awarding sentence to Imran Khan.
The Commonwealth Secretariat in London has funded the training of the judge. The University of Hull, UK, arranged the training. It will take place from August 5 to August 13. Islamabad High Court Chief Justice Aamer Farooq nominated him for the training.
Before departing to UK, Dilawar awarded three years jail-term to Imran Khan in the Toshakhana case. The Judge awarded sentence to Khan for “corrupt practices” related to false statements about assets acquired from Toshakhana during 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.
The Judge Humayun Dilawar found Khan guilty of dishonesty and concealing benefits IK obtained from the national exchequer.
