ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court (SC) bench will take up Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan’s bail plea in the cipher case today (November 22).
A notice to this effect was issued by the Registrar Office on November 16. The SC bench will be led by senior Puisne judge Justice Sardar Tariq Masood and include Justice Yahya Afridi and Justice Ayesha Malik. Khan had challenged rejection of his bail application by the Islamabad High Court as well as his indictment in the cypher case.
The petition filed through senior advocate Sardar Latif Khosa, requested the top court to dismiss the cypher case against PTI chief Imran Khan and Vice-Chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi. The IHC had dismissed Imran’s plea on October 27.
On Tuesday, the Islamabad High Court declared as null and void the proceedings of PTI chief Imran Khan’s trial conducted in jail in the cipher case. As a result, Imran and his deputy Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s October 23 indictments in the case also stood null and void, and the trial will be conducted afresh in open court.
The verdict, which was reserved earlier in the day, was issued on an intra-court appeal filed by Imran Khan against an IHC single-member bench’s decision approving his jail trial in the cipher case.
