ISLAMABAD: The accountability court listening to the £190 million case, has given a very last deadline to the lawyers representing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi for go-exam of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) research officer. The listening to came about at Adiala Jail, wherein both Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi had been gift. The court adjourned the next hering until Friday because of the absence of Bushra Bibi’s legal professional, Usman Gul, who became suggested to be stricken by dengue. The defence asked a postpone, explaining that Usman Gul’s illness averted him from attending. NAB attorneys, however, mentioned that Bushra Bibi had four legal professionals named within the case, and any of them should have carried out the pass-exam. NAB attorneys argued in courtroom that the defence themselves delivered an order from the Islamabad High Court to continue with the trial. Now, the defence lawyers are intentionally inflicting delays inside the listening to of the reference. The court told the defence legal professionals that they may be being given a ‘very last opportunity,’ and the cross-examination of the NAB research officer ought to be completed within the subsequent listening to. The court docket, led by way of Judge Nasir Javed Rana, granted the defence one final opportunity to cross-take a look at the NAB officer for the duration of the subsequent hearing. The £190 million reference hearing turned into carried out inside Adiala Jail, in which the PTI chairman and his spouse were supplied earlier than the court docket. Defence legal professionals, including Intizar Panjutha, Naeem Panjutha, and Faisal Fareed Chaudhry, had been present, even as the NAB crew turned into represented by means of Sardar Muzaffar Abbasi and his legal group. NAB prosecutor opposed the request for an adjournment, mentioning that the defence attorneys had already submitted 12 letters of legal professional. He argued that the other senior legal professionals present should proceed with the move-examination of the witness. The prosecutor stated that the closing witness inside the £a hundred ninety million reference had appeared in court for 23 previous hearings, but had but to be pass-examined. On September 18, the Islamabad High Court (IHC) barred the accountability court from handing over a final judgment inside the £one hundred ninety million case regarding Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi. A -member IHC bench, consisting of Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, heard the couple’s plea for acquittal inside the case. While the court docket ordered the trial court to hold the lawsuits, it informed that no very last verdict need to be issued at this stage. On September 7, Imran Khan had filed an acquittal plea within the case, citing the Supreme Court’s ruling on NAB amendments, which reinstated preceding felony provisions. However, the accountability court docket rejected Imran Khan’s plea on September 12, after hearing arguments from all facets at some point of a hearing held at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi. Earlier, the defence attorneys for Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi had neglected a listening to due to commitments within the Lahore High Court, preventing the go-exam of the reference’s last witness, Mian Umer Nadeem, an investigating officer. The NAB prosecutor accused the defence of employing delay techniques to stall the case. In the £a hundred ninety million corruption reference, Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi, and others stand accused of misappropriating Rs50 billion (equivalent to £a hundred ninety million on the time) sent by way of the United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) to the Pakistani government. The sum become part of a settlement regarding a property mogul. On December three, 2019, Imran Khan, as prime minister, acquired cabinet approval for the agreement with the NCA with out disclosing info of the agreement. His former cabinet contributors say the approval was sought with out disclosing information of the transaction. NAB claims that Imran Khan and his wife obtained land worth billions from the rich person, intended for an educational institute, in exchange for making the agreement transaction.
