Pak Supreme Court rejects Imran Khan’s plea looking for aid in Toshkhana case

By Press Trust of India: In a jolt to Imran Khan, Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected the ousted prime minister’s plea to remain the legal proceedings in opposition to him within the Toshakhana corruption case.

The case pertains to the allegations that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) celebration chief had “deliberately concealed” particulars of the items he retained from the Toshakhana — a repository the place presents handed to authorities officers from overseas officers are stored — throughout his time because the prime minister and proceeds from their reported gross sales.

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Khan is accused of misusing his 2018 to 2022 premiership to purchase and promote items in state possession that have been obtained throughout visits overseas and value greater than Rs 140 million (USD 635,000).

Khan, 70, had approached the apex courtroom after being denied aid within the case by the Islamabad High Court (IHC), the Geo News channel reported.

The Election Commission of Pakistan on October 21 final 12 months, disqualified the previous prime minister within the Toshakhana case for making “false statements and incorrect declaration”.

In May, a trial courtroom rejected Khan’s petition difficult the maintainability of the case and indicted the PTI chief, who denied all of the allegations of misdeclaration of items.

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Subsequently, Khan challenged the trial courtroom’s choice earlier than the IHC, which despatched the case again to the trial courtroom for re-examination. On July 8, the trial courtroom concluded that the ECP’s petition is maintainable and proceeded additional in opposition to the previous premier who then approached the apex courtroom for aid.

During Wednesday’s listening to, Justice Yahya Afridi of the two-member bench remarked that the apex courtroom is not going to intervene within the trial courtroom’s issues within the Toshakhana corruption case.

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However, it urged the IHC to resolve three of Khan’s pending petitions difficult the courtroom’s choice to return the matter to the trial courtroom after his lawyer Khawaja Haris knowledgeable the bench that there are a number of petitions — associated to the jurisdiction of the trial courtroom and switch of the Toshakhana case — pending within the excessive courtroom, the Express Tribune newspaper reported.

Khan is dealing with greater than 140 instances throughout the nation and faces costs like terrorism, violence, blasphemy, corruption and homicide since he was ousted from energy in April final 12 months after shedding a no-confidence vote in his management, which he alleged was a part of a US-led conspiracy focusing on him due to his impartial overseas coverage choices on Russia, China and Afghanistan.