Islamabad:
The best judge in the country noted that the High Court of Lahore (KHC) not only discussed the benefits of the cases filed against the former Prime Minister Imran Khan in connection with the riot incidents of May 9, but also gave a conclusive opinion about them while rejecting his pleas.
“The question is whether the advantages of a case can be raised in a bonding case,” Yahya Afrida’s Yahya Afrida -Chief (CJP) asked on Tuesday, hearing calls from the founder of the PTI against an LHC order.
An LHC division bench led by judge Shahbaz Ali Rizvi on June 24 rejected the requests for release under bail of Imran Khan in eight different cases of May 9.
In his order, the LHC declared that the former Prime Minister was involved in the emergence of a conspiracy to attack the military installations in the event of possible arrest, because two police officials had testified for this purpose.
The founder of the PTI challenged the ordinance of the Supreme Court, whose bench of three members led by the CJP Afridi including judge Muhammad Shafi Siddiqui and judge Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb took the issue on July 29.
During the procedure on Tuesday, the special prosecutor Zulfiqar Naqvi argued that he had received no opinion by the court in this case. The CJP said that an opinion would be published today.
CJ Afridi noted that the LHC in its decision on the deposit had discussed the substance of the case and even given a conclusive opinion. He asked if such conclusions could be given in a decision to release on bond.
He ordered the parties to prepare arguments on the specific legal point to know if an opinion concluding on the merits can be given in a decision to release on bond.
The CJ noted that before the clarification of this point, no party to the case would be authorized to present arguments on the merits, because the case is still in instance before the anti -terrorist courts (ATC).
Imran’s lawyer, the defender of lawyer Salman Safdar, suggested that he would be better if the hearing was planned earlier, but the court postponed the case until August 19.
