Former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi approached the Islamabad High Court once morest the arrest in the new Tosha Khana case.
Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi have filed a petition in the Islamabad High Court to declare their arrest illegal in the case of Toshah Khana Naye and release them. The petition was filed by Barrister Salman Safdar and Khalid Yousuf Chaudhry.
The position adopted in the petition is that Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi have been unjustly arrested in another fake case for political revenge following they were acquitted in the Eid case. Both the accused have been arrested during the pendency of the applications once morest the summons notices, the arrest during the pendency of the application in the Islamabad High Court is evidence of malice.
It was stated in the petition that political opponents are continuously using NAB for political revenge, the high courts have emphasized in their judgments that arrest cannot be made merely on registration of a case.
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The former prime minister and former first lady requested that the arrest of founder PTI and Bushra Bibi in any future case should be subject to the permission of the Islamabad High Court, and the arrest of Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi should be declared illegal. They should be released.
It should be remembered that on July 13, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) had included the arrest of Tehreek-e-Insaf founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi in the new reference of Tosha Khana.