IHC grants bail to Imran Khan in Thoshakhana case

Islamabad: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday granted bail to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan in Thoshakhana reference. 

Justice Amir Farooq of the IHC passed the order on the bail plea of the PTI Chief and directed him to deposit Rs100,000 as surety bond. 

The court grnated him bail till March 9. 

Huge rush was witnessed on the occasion as thousands of PTI workers accompanied their leader Imran Khan during his appearance before the Islamabad High Court.

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لاہور سے اسلام آباد راستے پر عوام کی بڑی تعداد نے جگہ جگہ اپنے لیڈر عمران خان کے ساتھ والہانہ محبت کا اظہار کیا۔
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The situation turned quite sensitive in terms of security.

The PTI workers showed rose petals on the vehicle carrying Imran Khan on the premises of the Islamabad High Court.

The Islamabad police had booked the PTI leaders including Imran Khan after the party workers took to the streets and vandalised state property over his disqualification in the Toshakhana reference.

The cases — registered under 7ATA along with other sections of the PPC — were filed at different police stations in the federal capital. The Police had named the PTI workers and leaders for blocking roads and attacking police personnel at the behest of Khan, Asad Umar, Ali Nawaz Awan and others.

The ECP, in a unanimous verdict on August 2022, had announced that the PTI received prohibited funding. The case was earlier referred to as the "foreign funding" case, but later the election commission accepted the PTI's plea to refer to it as the "prohibited funding" case.

Earlier in the day, a sessions court in Islamabad issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for the PTI chief in the Toshakhana case against him.

Additional sessions judge Zafar Iqbal announced the verdict reserved earlier in the case.

On other hand, an anti-terrorism court and banking court allowed interim bail to Imran Khan after he turned up before them along with his legal team at the judicial complex.

Khan secured bail in the prohibited funding and terrorism cases filed against him.

ATC judge Raja Jawad heard the terror case and granted bail till March 9 against submission of surety bonds worth Rs100,000.

Besides it, judge Rakhshanda Shaheen confirmed Khan's bail in the prohibited funding case.

Khan was due before three courts today to attend the hearings of multiple cases.