Jailed former PM Imran Khan, wife handed over to anti-graft body on remand in fresh corruption case
The Hindu
Former PM Imran Khan and wife handed to anti-corruption officials on 8-day remand for new corruption case.
A court in Pakistan on July 14 handed over jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to the country’s anti-corruption officials on an eight-day remand for probe in a fresh case of alleged corruption.
The former first couple was arrested by the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) soon after a district and sessions court on July 13 quashed their conviction in their un-Islamic marriage case.
The court's short order also stated to release Khan and Bibi immediately unless they were wanted in other cases.
The NAB, which filed a new Toshakhana case against the couple, on July 14 presented them before Judge Muhammad Ali Warraich of the accountability court.
The judge conducted the hearing inside the Adiala Jail due to security reasons.
NAB Deputy Director Mohsin Haroon, who led the team to arrest them, requested their physical remand and the court, after hearing the lawyers, agreed to grant an eight-day remand.
The court then ordered to present the two on July 22.