Pakistan
After Imran’s photo leak, mobiles banned in SC
The court staff also stopped the clerks and lawyers from carrying mobile phones
Islamabad: After the photo of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan was leaked in yesterday’s hearing, a ban on carrying mobile phones has been imposed in the premises of Supreme Court.
According to the details, the court staff also stopped the clerks and lawyers from carrying mobile phones.
Journalists are already banned from taking mobile phones into the courtroom.
It is pertinent to note that yesterday, during the hearing of the case related to amendments in the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) law, the founding chairman of PTI and former Prime Minister Imran Khan was presented in the Supreme Court as a petitioner through a video link.
The Supreme Court administration had started an investigation on the issue of the picture going viral. According to police, the administration directed the staff to identify the person who made the picture viral by checking the CCTV footage. Police will take action against the person who made the picture viral. The photo was taken in violation of the courtroom rules.
The trial was not televised live, and the reason for this was not explained, while the previous hearing of the same case was televised.