The Supreme Court postponed on Tuesday the hearing of the bond of the founder of PTI Imran Khan in eight cases of May 9 until August 12 without issuing notices as requested by the former usor’s lawyer.
In November 2024, an anti -terrorism court in Lahore had denied Imran’s bond in cases related to the disturbances of May 9, 2023, including an attack against the House of the commander of the Lahore body. The guilt declaration of the leader of PTI prison that was also rejected by the Superior Court of Lahore (LHC) on June 24.
Subsequently, Imran transferred to the Apex court last week against the rejection of the LHC of its bail supplications.
A two members led by the president of the Supreme Court of Pakistan (CJP) Yahya Afridi and including Judge Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui took those requests today.
PTI’s secretary general, Salman Akram Raja, appeared before the Court on behalf of Imran, as his main lawyer, Salman Safdar, could not attend the hearing because he was out of the country.
Raja informed the bank that Safdar has requested a postponement of the audience until next week. He requested that notices be issued to the relevant parties in the matter and that the audience is solved for next week.
However, the bank rejected the applications and postponed the audience until August 12.
Imran’s appeal, presented through the main lawyer Salman Safdar, said that the founder of PTI has been accused of conspiracy and inciting violence on May 9.
However, at the time of the alleged crime, Imran was under the custody of the National Responsibility Office. Therefore, his participation in violence was “impossible,” the petition argued.
He argued that the founder of PTI had undergone an “unprecedented campaign of political victimization” since his dismissal as a prime minister two years ago.
Regarding the rejection of LHC of bail supplications, the new appeal said that the court was based on “evidence designed and manufactured” that included “discredited statements, discredited and delayed by police officers.”
In its detailed verdict, the LHC Bank of two members comprised of Judge Syed Shahbaz Ali Rizvi and Tariq Mahmood Bajwa observed that the Prosecutor’s Office had evidence that reflected the role of Imran in the violence that exploded on May 9 after his arrest.
The Bank reproduced the statements of two police officers and prosecution witnesses, who claimed to have secretly assisted PTI meetings in which Imran supposedly instructed other leaders to attack military facilities in case of their imminent arrest of the Superior Court of Islamabad (IHC).
The meetings allegedly were held in a rest area of Chakri, Rawalpindi, on May 4 and at the residence of the Zaman Park of Imran in Lahore from May 7 to 9, 2023.
After the arrest of the former usor on May 9, 2023 of the IHC facilities, the riots burst throughout the country and continued for at least 24 hours, with military facilities also attacked.
Subsequently, the State launched a repression against him and his party, presenting many cases against Imran from the events of May 9. It has been acquitted in some of those cases, including cases of encryption and IDDAT.
