The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Thursday resumed the hearing on ex-Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan’s petition against his conviction in the Toshakhana case, media reports said.
On Tuesday, the IHC bench had adjourned the plea’s hearing till today while turning down the Election Commission of Pakistan’s (ECP) request for granting them two weeks to get the record.
On August 5, the former prime minister, who is currently incarcerated in Attock jail, was found guilty of corrupt practices in the case of misdeclaration of state gifts, according to Geo news.
The trial court in the federal capital had sentenced Khan to three-year in prison upon conviction, a move which is likely to bar him from standing in elections due later this year.
However, the PTI filed an appeal in the IHC challenging the trial court’s verdict and sentence against the party chief, requesting that the court declare the judgment “illegal” earlier this month.
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court (SC) which heard a petition challenging IHC’s decision to remand the case back to the trial court judge who had convicted him, observed that the trial court had hastened Toshakhana verdict.
It acknowledged the “procedural defects” in Khan’s conviction but opted to wait for the IHC’s decision on the former premier’s plea seeking suspension of the three-year sentence.
