A district and sessions court in Islamabad on Thursday confirmed PTI Chairman Imran Khan's bail in the case about his controversial remarks against a female judge during a public rally.
Khan was booked in a case for threatening judicial magistrate Zeba Chaudhry and police officers at a rally in F-9 Park on August 20, to “terrorise” police officials and the judiciary.
The main aim was to prevent the police officers and judiciary from carrying out their legal obligations, stated the FIR. The FIR was registered on the complaint of Magistrate Ali Javed at Islamabad's Margalla Police Station under Section 7 of ATA.
However, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) quashed the terror charges and directed to transfer the case to a relevant court under the remaining sections in the FIR on September 19.
Following the order the anti-terrorism court, on September 20, transferred the case to a sessions court and removed the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA) section from the case.
On September 22, during a hearing of a contempt case in IHC, Imran Khan also requested the court to allow him to apologise to judge Zeba Chaudhry in person.
Later, a magistrate of Islamabad's Margalla Police Station issued the arrest warrant for PTI Chief Imran Khan due to his non-appearance in court. However, Khan acquired protective bail from the IHC till October 7.
On the last hearing, the court extended the PTI chairman's bail till today (October 13), directing him to submit surety bonds of Rs50,000 against the bail.
However, the surety bonds couldn't be submitted till today.
The former premier appeared before the court in personal capacity for the hearing.
During the hearing, Khan's lawyer requested the court to allow them submitting surety bonds worth Rs5,000 but had to submit the bonds of Rs50,000 as the court ordered to submit the total amount.
During the hearing, Babar Awan informed the court that his client has been named in two cases and asked the court to approve the bail.
At this, the judge inquired about the prosecutor's opinion.
Munir told the court that Kohsar Police Station has attached section 505 in the first information report (FIR) which is a non-bailable offence.
“Imran Khan gave a provocative statement,” said the prosecutor.
But Awan told the court that a case was also registered at the Margalla Police Station, adding that anti-terrorism clauses were added in the FIR but it was removed on the orders of the high court.
The judge then remarked that the public gathering was happening at the F-9 Park then how come section 144 applied to the case?
He also remarked that the FIR does not include section 506-2, adding that there are bailable provisions in the case.
Later, the court accepted Khan's bail plea against a surety of Rs50,000.
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