PTI leader Ali Muhammad Khan was released from Mardan jail on Thursday after a district and sessions court issued his release orders. The former parliamentary affairs minister was in jail for 80 days.

“After spending 80 days in jail, facing 8 arrest and bogus cases our Ali Muhammad Khan is finally out of jail!” the PTI said in a tweet.

Footage uploaded by the former ruling party on Twitter showed Khan, wearing a white shalwar kameez and black waistcoat, was welcomed by his supporters as he exits the jail.

Sources told Aaj News that the PTI leader went home after his release.

It merits here to mention that the Peshawar High Court ordered the PTI leader’s release after approving his bail plea. The decision was given by a two-member bench comprising Justice Ijaz Anwar and Justice Fazal Subhan.

Justice Anwar had remarked that the Mardan deputy commissioner should appear before the court in the next hearing. He added that illegal work won’t happen again if a deputy commissioner was “made an example of”.

The court ordered that the deputy commissioner should appear in person before the court on August 8 and adjourned the proceedings till the first week of next month.

In May, Khan was arrested in Islamabad under the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) Ordinance on the order of Islamabad’s deputy commissioner after several PTI leaders were arrested following the May 9 events. He was released on Islamabad High Court’s order but re-arrested on order of Rawalpindi’s deputy commissioner under the same reason.

He was arrested again on the Peshawar deputy commissioner’s order under the MPO and then by the Mardan counterterrorism department of police in connection with the May 9 violence case.