ISLAMABAD: The Additional District and Sessions Judge Afzal Majoka has acquitted Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi in the nikkah during iddat case.
The court released orders of Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi by accepting their pleas and said they could walk free immediately.
The court ordered that both Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi should be released if they were not arrested in any other case, Judge Afzal Majoka announced the 28-page written reserved verdict on the plea filed by Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi against the sentence in illegal marriage case.
Khawar Maneka’s counsel Advocate Zahid Asif and Imran Khan’s counsel Imran Sabir, Murtaza Tori and Zahid Dar appeared before the court, Earlier District and Sessions Judge Shahrukh Arjumand, in a letter, requested the Islamabad High Court to transfer the case to another judge as he could not announce the verdict due to a lack of trust by petitioner Khawar Maneka.
It should be noted that the PTI founder and Bushra Bibi were indicted on Feb 3 by senior civil judge Qudratullah who sentenced them to seven-year imprisonment and a fine of 500,000 each in the ‘nikkah during iddat’ case.
