Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has secured preventive bail from arrest by the Lahore excessive court docket until March 3 in a case pertaining to protests exterior the Election Fee of Pakistan workplace, Geo TV reported. The second plea was disposed of by the excessive court docket after Khan’s counsel withdrew the petition, Daybreak reported.
The bail to 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief by excessive court docket justice Ali Baqar Najafi comes after excessive drama exterior the Lahore excessive court docket premises. An enormous crowd of PTI supporters had gathered exterior the court docket to welcome Khan as he arrived for listening to. He granted two deadlines of 5 pm and seven:30 pm to look earlier than the bench.
Social media was flooded with movies of Khan’s convoy being showered with rose petals because it made its technique to the court docket. Huge police deployment was put in place on the primary gate of the court docket.
Final week, an anti-terror court docket in Islamabad had rejected the ex-PM’s plea for an extension in his interim bail within the case.
A terrorism case was filed towards the previous cricket captain final October after his social gathering employees took to the streets exterior the Pakistan EC workplaces following the disqualification of their chief within the Toshakhana case.
Clashes had been reported between the protesting PTI employees and police in cities together with Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi. The court docket had granted Khan a pre-arrest bail in October final yr and summoned him on a number of events. However the PTI chief had failed to look within the court docket, citing medical grounds on account of accidents acquired in an assassination try.