Islamabad High Court dismisses Imran Khan’s Toshakhana reference case.
After the PTI leader submitted a plea to have the Toshakhana case ruled legally inadmissible, IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq made the reserved verdict public on June 23.
The decision of a trial court to grant the criminal prosecution brought by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) was contested by the former prime minister.
On May 10, Imran Khan was charged in the Toshakhana case after the Additional Sessions Judge overruled challenges to the case’s admissibility.
The PTI chief then went to the IHC, which postponed the case’s criminal proceedings until June 8. Following the restart of the hearing, Chief Justice Aamer Farooq indicated he would defer judgement on the case and rule on it after Eid al-Adha.
The PTI chair raised a concern about registering a complaint after a certain amount of time in his plea. His attorney, Khawaja Haris, insisted that a complaint could only be made four months after the return was turned in.
The PTI leader had petitioned the court a day earlier to have Justice Aamer removed from the case. In order to ensure a fair and unbiased trial, he requested the transfer of the two Toshakhana cases to a different bench.
Gohar Khan, the PTI chief’s attorney, described the ruling as a triumph for the party leader in a statement to the media after the verdict was announced.
According to him, an appeal was filed against the session judge’s ruling in the Toshakhana case. He claimed that they had been righted after seeking the court for a year.
Imran Khan is said to have withheld information about the gifts he received from the Toshaskhana while serving as prime minister.
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He was charged with abusing his position of authority to purchase and dispose of presents worth more than Rs140 million ($635,000) that he had acquired during foreign trips. Among the gifts were watches from a royal family that were purportedly sold in Dubai.
According to sections 167 and 173 of the constitution, the ECP disqualified the PTI head for engaging in corrupt practises and making “false statements and incorrect declarations.” The ECP petitioned the Islamabad Sessions Court and requested that criminal charges be brought against him.
NAB opened an investigation into the Toshakhana case on March 9 when Dubai-based businessman Umar Farooq Zahoor claimed that the PTI administration sold a pricey Graff timepiece that had been given to Imran Khan by the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman for $2 million, which would be equivalent to Rs280 million in 2019.
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