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Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday issued notice to the National Accountability Bureau on bail petitions filed by former Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the new Toshakhana case, Pakistan-based Dawn reported. Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi, who were taken into custody after their acquittal in the iddat case have filed a petition stating that they were illegally remanded into NAB’s custody, which has impacted their fundamental rights of liberty.
Initially, the division bench comprising IHC Chief Justice Amir Farooq and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz took up the petition of the couple on July 25, according to Dawn report. However, Imran Khan’s lawyer requested the IHC Chief Justice Amir Farooq to recuse himself from the case.
He said that Farooq should not hear the case as Khan had registered a complaint against him in the Supreme Judicial Council (SJC). The lawyer called for the transfer of the case to another bench.
Although Farooq rejected the request for recusal, he had to constitute a new bench as Justice Imtiaz went on summer vacation, and the previous bench was dissolved. The case has been moved to a separate division comprising Justices Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Arbab Muhammad Tahir.
Meanwhile, the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) Justice Syed Shahbaz Ali Rizvi on Thursday overruled an objection to Bushra Bibi’s petition against her arrest in the third Toshakhana case, according to Dawn report.
The judge removed the registrar’s office’s objection to the maintainability of the petition and ordered that it be fixed for a hearing. Bushra Bibi filed the petition through Advocate Sardar Latif Khosa.The petition stated that Bushra Bibi and her husband had been granted bail in the Toshakhana case. However, they were re-arrested in a new case with malicious intent, Dawn reported.
