By Special Correspondent
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court will hear Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, Imran Khan’s bail pleas in three separate cases including Tosha Khana today.
The other two cases include those registered against the PTI chief at Ramna Police Station of Islamabad. Former prime minister Imran Khan had approached the Lahore High Court (LHC) for protective bail in three FIRs including the Toshakhana case a day before.
According to Khan’s lawyer Azhar Siddique, the bail pleas were submitted at the Chief Justice House on Sunday. He said that LHC Chief Justice Muhammad Ameer Bhatti has fixed the petitions for hearing today (Monday). He said that they have applied for bail in the two cases registered against the PTI chief at Islamabad’s Ramna Police Station and the one involving Tosha Khana.
LHC approached after a showdown
Two separate cases were registered against the PTI chief at the Ramna Police Station here after the vandalism at the local Judicial Complex and Islamabad High Court during Khan’s appearance last week. The PTI chief approached the LHC for bail after a showdown between the authorities and the PTI workers at Khan’s Zaman Park residence in Lahore on Sunday.
Imran Khan who was ousted from power in April last year on Sunday vented his rage while addressing the party workers and supporters who participated in the “Jail Bharo Tehreek” at his residence in Lahore. He came down hard on the state institutions amid the arrest controversy. In his fiery speech, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman said that he had neither kneeled before any state institution or person nor would he let the nation do so.
Khan appeared on Tv amid a swarm of PTI workers who gathered at Zaman Park after the Islamabad police arrived there to make his arrest in the Tosha Khana case. On February 28, Additional Session Judge Islamabad, Zafar Iqbal issued the former prime minister’s non-bailable arrest warrant for continuously failing to appear before the court in the Tosha Khana case.
