LAHORE/QUETTA: Balochistan High Court (BHC) on Friday suspended Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest warrant for two weeks which were issued by a local court in a case registered against him in Quetta for making comments against the state institutions.
The suspension comes amid the arrival of a Quetta police team in Lahore to arrest the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman as per a court order. Justice Zaheer-Ud-Din Kakar of the provincial high court heard the plea filed by Iqbal Shah of the Insaf Lawyers Forum on behalf of Imran Khan.
The plea maintained that the offence wasn’t committed in the jurisdiction of Bijli Police Station where the case had been registered and requested the court to even dismiss the FIR. Justice Kakar, while suspending the warrant, issued the summons for the Balochistan police chief, SP legal and the Station House Officer of the Bijli Police Station. The hearing was then adjourned for two weeks.
FIR against PTI head
A first information report was registered at the Quetta police station against Imran Khan for the comments he made against the state institutions and their officers during a speech on Sunday. Complainant Abdul Khalil Kakar had registered the complaint at the Bijli Road Police Station against the PTI chief. The FIR included Sections 153-A, 124-A, and 505 of the PPC and Section 20 of PECA. Kakar had alleged that the PTI chief’s statement was an attempt to destroy public peace and order.
