Islamabad: Chairman PTI’s lawyer Latif Khosa has told the court that Imran Khan’s sentence was reduced by six months.
In the Islamabad High Court, a hearing was held on the PTI Chairman’s request for suspension of sentence in the Tosha Khana case.
Chairman PTI’s lawyer Latif Khosa requested that the court suspend the sentence.
Chief Justice Amir Farooq remarked that we have received the Supreme Court’s order if the subordinate judiciary has made a mistake, it needs to be trusted.
Latif Khosa said that Chairman PTI was sentenced to three years by the trial court. The President of Pakistan on August 14 pardoned six months of the prisoner’s sentence.
Latif Khosa argued that the proceedings cannot proceed without determining the jurisdiction. Chairman PTI will argue for suspension of sentence on three grounds. First of all, the court has to determine the jurisdiction. Ignored the order of the Islamabad High Court, and did not decide for the third time on the issue of jurisdiction, in this case, the Secretary Election Commission is giving authority to the District Election Commissioner.
Latif Khosa said that the Election Commission consists of the Chief Election Commissioner and four members, the permission of the Election Commission to file a complaint is not according to the law.
He said that the Islamabad High Court ordered the trial court to decide again on eight questions, but the trial court upheld its first order without answering those questions. There are many flaws in the decision of the trial court, Islam. Abad High Court ordered the trial court to hear the arguments again when the case was admissible, the trial court violated the decision of the High Court judge.
Latif Khosa said that the complainant cannot go to the direct session judge for trial, the procedure is given in the law that the complainant will go to the magistrate first, The order of the trial court cannot be sustained due to errors, it is requested that The sentence of Chairman PTI should be suspended.
Justice Tariq Jahangiri inquired about the grounds on which the trial court termed the defense witnesses as irrelevant.
The lawyer replied that the trial court did not write the reason for declaring the witnesses of Chairman PTI irrelevant, it declared them irrelevant on the same day without examining the witnesses, has this ever happened in criminal history?
Sardar Latif Khosa said that the accused cannot be stopped from presenting witnesses in his defense, one person is presenting his defense, how can you stop him, Four witnesses were presenting and there were no forty. The court’s decision affected the constitutional rights of Chairman PTI.
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Latif Khosa while completing the arguments said that Imran Khan’s lawyer Khawaja Haris Sahib reached the trial court at 12:15 PM, The judge said there was no need, to listen to the order, and at 12:30 PM the judge gave a short order. He was sentenced to three years; it was discovered at 12:35 PM that Lahore police arrived to arrest him.
Amjad Pervez, the lawyer of the Election Commission, while giving arguments, said that the request of Chairman PTI regarding the right of defense is being heard in the single bench of the Islamabad High Court and is also being heard in the Supreme Court. This bench cannot make any observations on the matter due to
On this, Chief Justice Amir Farooq said that this bench was sandwiched between the Supreme Court and the single bench.
Lawyer Amjad Parvez complained about giving a short period for preparation and said that Imran Khan had disclosed four goats in the returns but did not disclose the other relevant items, This is not a case of tax return, but a case of false declaration, the convicted person is now in the state. is in prison, so it is necessary to have a party.
When lawyer Amjad Pervaiz requested to issue a notice to the state in the case, the Chief Justice said that the sentence is suspended even without notice in the case of a short-term sentence.
The court adjourned the hearing of the case till tomorrow.