International Desk: Chairman Imran Khan\u2019s arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case has been declared \u201cillegal\u201d by the Supreme Court and authorities have been ordered to release him \u201cimmediately\u201d.<\/p>\n
The apex court has sent the PTI chief to the Police Lines Guest House and ordered him to present himself before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) by tomorrow, the same court which declared his arrest legal, while also setting the precedence that no person will be arrested within the premises of a court.<\/p>\n
When the authorities presented the PTI chief before the three-member bench at around 5:40pm \u2014 an hour later than ordered \u2014 there was a short exchange of words between Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial and Khan and then the order was issued.<\/p>\n
PTI \u2014 which has been on a rampage for the last two days and its protests have led to clashes with the police across the country, resulting in the death of several \u2014 welcomed the decision, with the government unhappy with the development.<\/p>\n
The three-member bench \u2014 headed by CJP Bandial and comprising Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar \u2014 issued the verdict on PTI’s petition challenging Khan’s arrest.<\/p>\n
The petition was filed after the capital’s high court declared his arrest legal on May 9 (the day he was arrested), despite expressing dissatisfaction over the manner of the arrest.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is good seeing you,\u201d CJP Bandial told Khan when he was presented before the three-member bench, and also asked him to “condemn” the violent protests that took place as a result of the arrest.<\/p>\n
In response, the PTI chief, through the media present in the courtroom, forwarded a message to his supporters that they should refrain from damaging public and private property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
International Desk: Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case has been declared “illegal” by the Supreme Court and authorities have been ordered to release him “immediately”. The apex court has sent the PTI chief to the Police Lines Guest House and ordered him to present himself before the Islamabad High Court (IHC) by tomorrow, the same court which declared his arrest legal, while also setting the precedence that no person will be arrested within the premises of a court. When the authorities presented the PTI chief before the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31135,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[30,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31136,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31134\/revisions\/31136"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}