Imran Khan booked under terrorism charges   (2022)

 ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and deposed high minister Imran Khan used to be booked in a terrorism case on the grievance of Islamabad Saddar Magistrate Ali Javed for threatening the extra periods choose of the federal capital, Zeba Chaudhry.

The first statistics document (FIR), a reproduction of which is reachable with The Express Tribune, used to be lodged with the Margalla police station at 10 pm, Saturday, following a speech of Imran Khan at the PTI rally in F9 Park. The FIR additionally consists of Section 7 of the Anti-Terrorism Act.

The FIR used to be lodged hours earlier than some other Islamabad police station obtained a written grievance from a resident of G-11/2 for lodging a case in opposition to Imran over making hate-speeches, and inciting rise up towards the army, police and judiciary.

The FIR lodged by means of the Margalla police stated that the PTI chief threatened the extra classes decide of Islamabad with a view to terrorise the excessive officers of the police and the judiciary, so that they ought to no longer fulfil their responsibilities and chorus from taking motion in opposition to the PTI due to concern of Imran.

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The FIR was once registered much less than an hour after the PTI chief addressed birthday celebration employees and supporters at a rally in Islamabad’s F-9 park to specific unity with Shahbaz Gill, who was once arrested on sedition fees on August 9.

A day earlier, Imran had startled the state when he alleged that Gill used to be sexually abused throughout detention. At the rally, he stated that his birthday party would strategy the Supreme Court in connection with the alleged torture on his aide.

Imran alleged that Additional Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry knew that Gill was once tortured, however she did now not launch him on bail. He threatened that he would take prison motion towards the decide and the Inspector accepted of Islamabad police.

Several sentences from Imran’s speech had been made phase of the FIR. It stated that Imran Khan’s speech in this diagram and fashion used to be aimed at spawning concern and panic amongst the police authorities, the judiciary and the public.

It brought that Imran’s hazard of “filing a case in opposition to you” had unfold worry amongst the police authorities, the judiciary and the public and destroyed the peace in the country. The complainant requested the police to take felony motion towards the accused. 

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Separately, an utility for registering a case in opposition to Imran Khan was once filed with the Ramna police on Sunday. In his complaint, Advocate Ziaur Rahman accused the PTI chief of inciting the human beings to rebel in opposition to country establishments and the use of hate speech in opposition to the army, judiciary and police officers.

Rahman mentioned that on Saturday Imran introduced that the PTI would file a case in opposition to Islamabad IG Dr Akbar Nasir Khan, the deputy inspector normal (DIG) and Additional Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry. He stated that the hazard of submitting case towards the Justice of the Peace used to be tantamount to an “act of terrorism”.

He similarly complained that Imran used to be making an attempt to forestall an honourable decide from performing her duties, including that the PTI chief's speech at the celebration rally in F-9 Park on Saturday damage the dignity and sentiments of each the judiciary and the bar. He requested the police to arrest Imran Ahmed Khan Niazi.

The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Ramna police station, Shahid Zaman, advised The Express Tribune that no case had but been registered on the software due to the fact the incident took place in F-9 Park, which lay in the jurisdiction of Margalla Police Station.

On the different hand, a senior police officer, when contacted through The Express Tribune, stated that aside from the crime scene and relying upon the nature of the allegations, a case ought to be registered in the police station in the residential location of the complainant.

Other police sources stated that in the sedition case registered towards Gill carried Section 134 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC), which intended that the accused has dedicated the crime of inciting public insurrection towards kingdom establishments in session with countless people. They brought that Imran should grow to be an accused in the case if stable proof used to be found.

Legal action

Also on Sunday, Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah took to the microblogging internet site of Twitter, announcing that the PTI chief would have to face criminal penalties for “threatening” police officers and the Justice of the Peace throughout his speech at the Islamabad rally the different night.

“Imran Niazi will have to face the regulation for threatening and hurling abuses at the Magistrate and Police officers. Such acts of brazen thuggery are accountable for instigating extremism in society,” he said. “You [Imran Khan] are now not allowed to task the writ of the nation through inciting rebellion,” he added.

Separately, the Islamabad police replied on Sunday to warnings issued by means of the PTI chairman towards the capital police a day ago, pronouncing in a assertion on Twitter that “anyone threatening the police or making false accusations will be dealt with in accordance to the law”.

The capital police stated in their tweet that they would proceed to function their obligations diligently. They brought that the police had taken an oath to serve the state at all times. “All officers are rendering their offerings with entire accountability and proceed to discharge them,” they said.

“The police is an organised organization and we are certain to operate our duties. The police ought to no longer indulge in any mismanagement.” The Islamabad police reiterated that it would take lawful motion in opposition to “all false allegations.”