Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder and former Prime Minister Imran Khan has approached the Islamabad High Court seeking protection from being handed over to military custody for trials related to the May 9 incidents.
A petition was filed with the court through lawyer Uzair Bhundari, naming the Secretary of Law, Secretary of Interior, and the Federal Government as respondents.
The petition also includes the Inspector General of Islamabad Police, Inspector General of Punjab Police, Director General of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), and the Inspector General of Prisons as parties.
The petition requests the court to prevent the PTI founder from being placed in military custody and to ensure that he remains under the jurisdiction of civilian courts and in civilian custody.
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Khan is currently imprisoned in Adiala Jail under a number of different cases including corruption and the May 9 riots.
This is not the first time Khan has expressed a fear of being handed over to military custody and being tried in a military court.
The registrar’s office of Islamabad High Court on Tuesday raised objections against the petition of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan seeking to stop his possible trial in army courts in the cases regarding the May 9 incidents, APP reported.
The registrar’s office stated that “how a relief could be demanded by the petitioner without giving reference of any certain FIR.”
It further objected that the petitioner had not attached any document or order with his plea.
The office pointed out how a petition could be filed in IHC regarding cases in Punjab. Moreover, how a petition could be moved here when the military courts’ matter was already pending with the Supreme Court, it said.
