ATTOCK: The particular court docket established to listen to circumstances underneath Official Secrets and techniques Act on Wednesday prolonged judicial remand of PTI Chairman Imran Khan for 14 day throughout listening to of the in cypher case held at Attock Jail.

The PTI chief who has been incarcerated in Attock Jail, was offered earlier than Particular Court docket’s Decide Abul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain who held proceedings within the jail Superintendent’s workplace.

Earlier, in mild of safety considerations the Legislation and Justice Division determined to conduct the cypher case listening to towards the PTI chairman within the jail.

Decide Abul Hasnat Mohammad Zulqarnain of the particular court docket set as much as hear circumstances underneath the Official Secrets and techniques Act was designated to preside over the cipher case proceedings, as outlined within the ministry’s notification.

Although the cypher subject by no means actually pale out, it resurfaced after a US publication not too long ago revealed its contents.

The Federal Investigation Company (FIA) has now launched a radical probe into the alleged “disappearance” of the diplomatic cypher, reserving Imran Khan and former overseas minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi underneath the not too long ago enacted Official Secrets and techniques Act.

The court docket prolonged the judicial remand of the previous premier until September 13 and instantly left for Islamabad after conducting the listening to.

Safety exterior the jail was beefed up, as police and Elite Drive personnel had been deployed across the jail premises and all of the routes resulting in the jail had been sealed.

Earlier, a particular court docket established to attempt the case underneath the Official Secrets and techniques Act, 1923, ordered the Attock jail superintendent to maintain Imran in “judicial lockup and produce him on 30.08.2023 earlier than this court docket”. Imran’s quantity 2 within the PTI, Shah Mahmood Qureshi, has already been arrested in the identical case.

It also needs to be famous right here that although the FIA had requested the court docket to grant bodily remand for Imran Khan, the court docket had rejected the plea and despatched him on judicial remand as a substitute. In line with the FIA, as soon as judicial remand has been granted, pleas for bodily remand are now not admissible and solely a bail utility could be filed earlier than trial begins.

Imran Khan’s authorized crew together with legal professionals Salman Safdar, Intezar Panjutha, Shoaib Shaheen and others had been current on the Attock jail

A post-arrest bail utility was additionally filed by the PTI chairman’s authorized crew. The legal professionals argued that there isn’t any reliable Official Secret Act case towards Imran and that your complete matter had been concocted for political revenge.

On Tuesday, Imran Khan was re-arrested within the cypher case moments after his sentence within the Toshakhana prison case was suspended by the Islamabad Excessive Court docket.

Moments after, the Islamabad Excessive Court docket had suspended the sentence of Imran Khan within the Toshakhana prison case. A division bench of IHC Chief Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Tariq Mahmood Jahangiri accepted Imran Khan’s enchantment and pronounced the choice.

The court docket had ordered to launch Imran Khan from jail after submitting bail bonds surety of Rs100,000.

Jail trial challenged at IHC

In the meantime, a petition difficult the regulation ministry’s notification to switch the court docket to the Attock jail has been filed with the Islamabad Excessive Court docket (IHC).

Notably, the inside ministry, in view of safety considerations, had written a letter on August 29 searching for permission to conduct a jail trial of the PTI chief on August 30. The regulation ministry replied that it had no objection on this regard.

In his plea, Imran Khan by means of his lawyer Sher Afzal Marwat has stated that the notification is ‘unlawful’ and requested the IHC to quash it.

He has additionally challenged the authority of Islamabad’s Anti-Terrorism Court docket-1 (ATC) decide Zulqarnain to listen to the circumstances registered underneath the Official Secrets and techniques Act.

In line with the appliance, the decide does “not meet even the essential qualification standards required on this case”.

The regulation secretary, inside secretary, chief commissioner, IG, DG FIA, superintendent Adiala jail and superintendent Attock jail have been made events to the matter.

‘Imran in excessive spirits and is constructive’

Later, Barrister Safdar confirmed the court docket prolonged Imran Khan’s judicial remand by 14 days and in addition issued a discover on his post-arrest bail plea, searching for a reply from the respondents by September 2.

”سائفر ایک سفارتی خط و کتابت کو کہتے ہیں، اصل سائفر ہمیشہ فارن آفس کی تحویل میں رہتا ہے اور اِس بات کی تصدیق سابق وزیرِ داخلہ رانا ثنا کرچُکے ہیں، اُنکا بیان سوشل میڈیا پر موجود ہے کہ ”سائفر تو ہمارے پاس ہے“ تو اگر وہ اصلی دستاویز آپکے پاس ہے تو مقدمہ کِس بات کا ہے؟“
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— PTI Islamabad (@PTIOfficialISB) August 30, 2023

Speaking to the media, Safdar stated he met Imran, who was in “excessive spirits” and was “constructive”. He added that the PTI chief gave him a briefing for quarter-hour detailing his stance on the cypher case.

The barrister asserted that proceedings underneath the Secrets and techniques Act had been “reserved for the armed forces concerning inner issues, reminiscent of spying [and] mapping”. He termed the prosecution of a former premier and a former overseas minister (Qureshi) as “extremely condemnable and really regarding”.

He stated that nobody within the PTI’s authorized crew and even Imran himself knew that he had been detained on judicial remand within the cipher case “for the previous 15 days, when the FIA had requested for his bodily remand however it was rejected”.

He then confirmed that the particular court docket will hear the bail plea on Saturday and that the court docket additionally issued notices to the FIA on two different petitions — one difficult the trial of Imran within the cipher case and the second requesting an open listening to of the case.

Presenting Imran’s stance on the cipher case, Safdar acknowledged that former inside minister Rana Sanaullah had admitted on social media that the unique cypher was with them. “The FIA has additionally admitted that the unique doc of the cipher is with the International Workplace,” he added.

Referring to the 2 conferences held by the then cupboard, the lawyer asserted that the cypher’s contents had been mentioned there and the then authorities had “declassified the cypher and the minutes of that assembly are with the Cupboard Division”.

“The day the cipher was declassified, it now not remained an official secret,” he stated, asking for what objective then was this case for.