Toshakhana corruption case | Imran Khan approaches Supreme Court against Islamabad High Court order
The Hindu
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party chief and former Prime Minister Imran Khan has petitioned in Supreme Court against the Islamabad High Court’s directive to the trial court that had asked for a re-examination of the maintainability of the Toshakhana corruption case within a week.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaaf party chief and former Prime Minister Imran Khan has petitioned in Supreme Court against the Islamabad High Court's directive to the trial court that had asked for a re-examination of the maintainability of the Toshakhana corruption case within a week.
Mr. Khan, 70, was indicted in the Toshakhana corruption case on May 10 by Additional District and Sessions Judge Humayun Dilawar, who rejected objections about the admissibility of the case.
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Imran Khan had challenged the admissibility of the case before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) that set aside the verdict of the trial court. The IHC Bench had stated that the trial court had dismissed the petition of Mr. Khan on weak grounds. The Bench asked the lower court to consider the petition of Mr. Khan as pending.
“The trial court’s decision was challenged before the IHC, which remanded the case back to the former on July 4 to re-examine the matter in seven days in the light of eight legal questions to decide the maintainability of the reference,” reported The Dawn newspaper.
The fresh petition, brought by Mr. Khan before the apex court on July 6, argued that the IHC was not legally justified in remanding the same questions of law that formed the basis of the impugned order for re-determination by the same trial judge who had already given his judgment.
“In the petition, Mr. Khan contended the IHC had committed a jurisdiction error in remanding the case to the same trial judge against whom an application had been filed for transfer of the case,” the report said.
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