Balochistan High Court (BHC) has given transient alleviation to former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and suspended his non-bailable arrest warrant for 2 weeks issued with the aid of using a neighborhood courtroom docket in a hate speech case registered in Quetta relating inciting the general public in opposition to country institutions.
This comes amid the advent of a Quetta police crew in Lahore to arrest the PTI chairman. The Quetta judicial Justice of the Peace issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for the PTI leader following a case registered on the Bijli Ghar police station, Geo News pronounced.
The case turned into filed in opposition to Imran Khan beneathneath a couple of sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (PECA) for maligning country wide institutions. The Balochistan police registered a case in opposition to the PTI chairman at the criticism of a citizen – named Abdul Khalil Karak.
Justice Zaheer-Ud-Din Kakar of the BHC heard the plea filed with the aid of using Iqbal Shah of the Insaf Lawyers Forum (ISF) on behalf of the PTI leader, as according to Geo News reports.
The plea maintained that the offense wasn`t dedicated withinside the jurisdiction of Bijli Police Station in which the case were registered and asked the courtroom docket to brush aside the FIR.
While postponing the arrest warrant, Justice Kakar additionally issued a summons for the Balochistan police leader, SP prison and the station residence officer of the Bijli Police Station. The listening to turned into then adjourned for 2 weeks, pronounced Geo News.
In the speech on Sunday, the PTI leader had come down difficult at the “country institutions” after a crew of Islamabad police had arrived at his Zaman Park house to arrest him withinside the Toshakhana case.
The deposed high minister — who turned into ousted from strength in April closing year — vented his rage even as addressing celebration employees and supporters at Zaman Park house in Lahore who participated withinside the “Jail Bharo Tehreek” (voluntary arrest movement).
Khan stated that he had neither kneeled earlier than any organization or individual nor could permit the country do so. Imran Khan is going through a complete of 37 instances filed in opposition to him in distinct elements of the country, pronounced The News International.
These encompass litigation, police and Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) instances, and additionally lawsuits released with the aid of using the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in opposition to the PTI leader.
