A district and sessions court docket on Thursday disregarded Awami Muslim League (AML) leader and previous interior minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed’s publish-arrest bail plea.
Additional Sessions Judge Tahir Abbas Supra heard the application within the case towards the senior baby-kisser for levelling homicide plot allegations towards former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) co-chair Asif Ali Zardari.
Sheikh Rashid’s lawyers Sardar Abdul Razzaq and Intizar Panjotha, prosecutor Adnan and the plaintiff’s attorney regarded in court.
During the listening to, Advocate Razzaq said that in keeping with the FIR, Rashid’s declaration concerning PPP co-chair Zardari’s conspiracy to kill Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Imran Khan aimed to create a clash between the 2 parties.
The AML leader’s legal professional argued that there have to were an research into Imran’s allegations as consistent with the police document, Rashid had cited the PTI leader’s personal assertion concerning Zardari’s assassination plot.However, Advocate Razzaq argued that” this will handiest be a case of defamation”, including that senior propose Latif Khosa has sent a defamation word.
The court docket puzzled why the investigating officer had not investigated Imran Khan. On this, the plaintiff’s attorney requested to conduct an investigation involving the PTI leader.
The court remarked that the case of alleged accusation “will be made in opposition to Imran and not a case of conspiracy”.
Moreover, the courtroom instructed the ex-minister to be careful along with his desire of words, adding that “something you say on TV must be a rely of law within the court”.When requested how many previous instances there had been against the AML leader for “irresponsible talk”, the courtroom became informed that there have not been any.
After being attentive to the arguments of both parties, the court docket reserved its choice on Sheikh Rashid’s publish-arrest bail plea. Later, it introduced its reserved verdict, dismissing the AML leader’s software.
Last week, the Islamabad police had arrested Sheikh Rashid in a late-night raid from his house in a private housing society within the federal capital.
An application had been submitted to the Abpara Police Station to sign up a case in opposition to the former minister for claiming that Zardari turned into hatching a plot to assassinate Imran Khan.