£190M settlement case: IHC to hear Imran Khan's bail plea today

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The Islamabad High Court (IHC) will hear PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s bail plea in the Al-Qadir Trust case later today at 2pm.

A division bench headed by Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb will preside over the hearing.

The case alleges that the PTI chief and his wife, Bushra Bibi, obtained billions of rupees and land worth hundreds of kanals from a real estate firm for legalising Rs50 billion thpresideat was identified and returned to the country by the UK during the previous PTI government.

Imran was whisked away from the IHC premises by paramilitary forces on May 9, leading to violent protests across the country. The PTI chief had immediately approached the IHC for release but it had declared his arrest legal.

Imran had then approached the Supreme Court, which on May 11, termed his arrest “invalid and unlawful” and directed him to appear before the IHC the next day.

Subsequently, the IHC had granted Imran bail in the case for two weeks and stopped authorities from arresting the PTI chief till May 17 in any case registered in Islamabad after May 9.

On May 17, the IHC had extended its order to prevent Imran’s arrest in cases filed against him after May 9 until May 31.

The IHC will also hear two other petitions concerning Imran today, one of which is a bail plea regarding the violation of Section 144.

The other is a writ petition seeking a bar on Islamabad police from arresting Imran in any case registered after May 9. These two petitions will be heard after the bail plea in the Al-Qadir Trust case at 2:30pm.

Meanwhile, an Islamabad accountability court will also take up the bail plea Bushra Bibi in the Al-Qadir Trust case. Last week, she had been granted bail till May 31 (today).

Accountability judge Mohammad Bashir will  over the hearing.

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