<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">A magistrate of Islamabad's Margalla Police Station has issued an arrest warrant for Tehreek-e-Insaaf (PTI) Chief Imran Khan, on 1st October.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The area magistrate issued an arrest warrant in the case registered on the 20th of August against the PTI Chief for his remarks regarding Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The FIR includes four sections of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC), including 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 189 (threat of injury to public servant), and 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant).</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The former Prime Minister is facing contempt charges for his controversial remarks about additional district and sessions judge.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The court has issued an arrest warrant for Khan due to his non-appearance in court.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The Islamabad High Court (IHC) issued the warrant hours after the former Prime Minister submitted an affidavit in a contempt case against him.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The PTI chairman appeared on 2nd October before the court of judge Chaudhry and told the court staff that he wanted to apologise to the judge, however, she was on leave.</span></p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><br />''</p>''<p style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #222222;">The hearing of the case will take place on the 3rd of October, when IHC will review Khan's response.</span></p>
News On AIR | October 1, 2022 8:39 PM
Islamabad magistrate issues arrest warrant for Tehreek-e-Insaaf Chief Imran Khan