The Supreme Court established on Saturday the hearing date of March 21 for a request for contempt to the Court against the founder of PTI Imran Khan.
In 2022, the SC had raised doubts about the maintainability of the declaration that seeks contempt procedures against the former president of PTI, for allegedly breaching the orders of the Superior Court with respect to the ‘hit march’ of his party on May 25 of that year, and observed that the petition, presented by the Interior Ministry, was “ineffective.”
The Ministry had declared in the plea that the Apex court had ordered the PTI to be held its ‘marching’ march on a land located between the H-9 and G-9 sectors, but Imran and its supporters went to D-Chowk in the alleged contravention of judicial orders.
According to a new development, a Constitutional Bank of five members headed by Judge Aminuddin Khan will listen to the petition on March 21.
The bank will include Judge Jamal Khan Commandkhail, Judge Naeem Akhter Afghan, Judge Hashim Khan Kakar and Judge Aamer Faooq too.
On October 13, the Ministry of Interior instituted contempt of the Court charges against Imran for allegedly breaching the order of May 25, SC.
In the May order, he recalled the petition, the Apex court had ordered the PTI to hold its ‘marching’ march in a reason located between the H-9 and G-9 sectors in view of the categorical guardian in the name of the leadership of the party and its advice that would not cause any inconvenience or blockade of the Srinagar road or that the rally is the rally in the paza and its advice.
Despite these guarantees, PTI’s leadership, acting in obvious contempt for the instructions, urged its supporters to reach D-Chowk, falsely professing that the court had allowed the march without any condition.
The request for contempt requested the implementation of the Order of the Court Apex for the protection of the fundamental rights of the public, particularly the residents of Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
