Wednesday May 15, 2024
Islamabad (Urdu Point. DW Urdu. May 15, 2024) The Islamabad High Court has granted the bail plea of former Prime Minister Imran Khan in the Al-Qadir Trust case and ordered his release in this case. A two-member bench including Chief Justice Aamir Farooq of the Islamabad High Court on Wednesday pronounced the verdict on Imran Khan's bail plea, which was reserved a day ago.
The court has ordered Imran Khan to deposit a bond of 1 million rupees as bail. In the Al-Qadir Trust case, Imran Khan is accused of having acquired hundreds of kanals of land for a trust owned by him and his wife in return for giving illegal incentives to property tycoon Malik Riaz. Imran Khan has rejected this allegation.
The prosecution claimed that Imran Khan, as Prime Minister Malik Riaz, owned the private housing society Bahria Town, which had been frozen in the UK, instead of depositing the 190 million pounds or 60 billion rupees in the government treasury, indirectly returned it to Bahria Town. was
In this case, the statements of more than 30 witnesses have been recorded by the accountability court, while according to the NAB officials, the statements of 10 more witnesses are to be recorded.
Imran Khan will remain in jail
Seventy-one-year-old Imran Khan, who has been in jail for various cases since last August, will not be able to be released from jail despite getting bail in the trust case because apart from the cipher case, he has also been convicted in a marriage case during Eid.
The hearing on Cyphercase could not be held
The Islamabad High Court has earlier suspended the sentence of Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the Tosha Khana case. In this case, Imran Khan as Prime Minister is facing charges of illegally selling official gifts at a very low market price. Along with this, the cipher case against Imran Khan and his party leader and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi regarding the disclosure of important government secrets as Prime Minister is also in its final stages.
A hearing was scheduled to be held in the Islamabad High Court today in this case, but no action could be taken today.
