A new bench of the Islamabad High Court was formed on Saturday to hear PTI founding chairman Imran Khan’s plea concerning jail trials in NAB cases.
The new bench comprises Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri; set to convene on Monday, January 22.
The need to form a new bench arose as Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, part of the earlier bench is scheduled to be on leave next week.
During the previous hearing, on January 18, two-member bench consisting of Justice Aurangzeb and Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir had issued notices to all concerned parties.
The capital’s high court reserved its verdict on the admissibility of petitions against the jail trial of PTI founder Imran Khan in the Toshakhana and £190 million NAB references, at the January 18 hearing.
PTI counsel Sardar Latif Khosa representing the former premier, while reading out the jail trial notifications and giving reference to multiple court verdicts, stated that they have challenged the two notifications regarding the Toshakhana and Al-Qadir Trust (£190 million scam) case jail trials.
He added that one of their petitions was allotted a number, while the other was not.
