LAHORE: Former prime minister Imran Khan has applied for protective bail in three FIRs, including the Toshakhana case, before the Lahore High Court (LHC).
According to Khan’s attorney Azhar Siddique, the bail petitions were submitted to the Chief Justice House on Sunday, and LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti has scheduled the hearing for today.
The solicitor disclosed that bail has been requested in the two cases registered against the PTI chief at the Ramna Police Station in Islamabad and the Toshkhana case.
The vandalism at the Judicial Complex and Islamabad High Court during Khan’s appearance last week prompted the Ramna Police Station to register two separate cases against the PTI chief.
In the meantime, the Registrar Office of the LHC has objected to the petitions due to the absence of certain documents and directed PTI leaders Hammad Azhar, Farooq Habib, and Mian Aslam Iqbal to submit the missing papers.
Sunday’s confrontation between the authorities and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) at Khan’s Zaman Park residence prompted the PTI chief to petition the LHC for bail.
While receiving the arrest warrant for his boss, Khan’s chief of staff, Senator Shibli Faraz, claimed that the PTI chief was not at his Zaman Park residence.
The deposed prime minister, who was removed from power in April of last year, vented his rage hours later while addressing party workers and supporters who participated in the “Jail Bharo Tehreek” at his residence in Lahore (court arrest movement).
Imran Khan, chairman of the PTI, lashed out at “state institutions” amid the arrest scandal.
In his fiery speech, the PTI chairman declared that neither he nor the nation had ever bowed before any institution or person.
Khan appeared amid a swarm of PTI workers gathered at Zaman Park after the Islamabad police arrived at his Lahore home to arrest him in the Toshakhana case.
Additional Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal of an Islamabad court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for the former prime minister on February 28 for repeatedly failing to appear in court in the Toshakhana case.
In accordance with court orders, an Islamabad Police team led by a caretaker visited Zaman Park to execute the arrest warrant.
