ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court and banking court granted interim bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan after he appeared before the courts at the judicial complex on Tuesday.
The former prime minister secured bail in the prohibited funding and terrorism cases filed against him.
ATC judge Raja Jawad heard the terror case and granted bail till March 9 against submission of surety bonds worth Rs100,000.
Meanwhile, judge Rakhshanda Shaheen confirmed Khan’s bail in the prohibited funding case.
Khan was scheduled to appear before three courts today to attend the hearings of multiple cases. These included a prohibited funding case in a banking court, an anti-terrorism case, and the Toshakhana and an attempt to murder cases in the same court.
The Islamabad police had registered terror cases against PTI leaders, including Khan, after the party workers took to the streets and vandalised state property following his disqualification in the Toshakhana reference.
The cases — filed under 7ATA along with other sections of the PPC — were filed at different police stations in the federal capital in which hundreds of PTI workers and leaders were named for blocking roads and attacking police personnel at the behest of Khan, Asad Umar, Ali Nawaz Awan and others.
Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) on October 2022 booked PTI chief for allegedly receiving prohibited funding.
The ECP, in a unanimous verdict on August 2022, had announced that the PTI received prohibited funding. The case was earlier referred to as the “foreign funding” case, but later the election commission accepted the PTI’s plea to refer to it as the “prohibited funding” case.
Security arrangements at Sector G-11 of the judicial complex were disrupted as the PTI workers removed all barriers. Meanwhile, security was also tightened at the katchehri.
The attempt to murder case against Khan was filed by a Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leaer Mohsin Shahnawaz Ranjha last year at the Secretariat Police Station in the federal capital.
The case was filed a day after Ranjha was allegedly attacked outside the ECP office, where PTI workers and supporters were protesting the electoral body’s verdict that resulted in the disqualification of their party chief in the Toshakhana case.
At the last hearing, a district and sessions court rejected on Monday the former prime minister’s petition seeking a transfer of the hearing of the attempted murder case to the judicial complex.
Additional sessions judge Zafar Iqbal heard the case today. Khan’s lawyer Sardar Masroof attended the hearing.
During the hearing, the judge inquired when the PTI chief will come.
The lawyer replied that Khan is on his way to Islamabad from Lahore by road and will come within the court’s time.
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