ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi submitted a plea on Tuesday asking for the suspension of their sentences in the iddat case. The district and sessions court has deferred its decision.
Earlier this month, the district court was instructed by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to make a decision on the requests filed by former prime minister Khan and his wife Bushra to have their sentences suspended for ten days.
Additionally, the court had granted the couple’s petition challenging their conviction one month’s notice before making a decision.
The couple requested the announcement of the district and sessions court’s reserved ruling in several petitions filed with the ex-premier. They also asked the high court to hear the case.
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In the interim, Bushra had requested a ruling on her plea, which she had submitted to the sessions court in order to have her sentence suspended.
Today’s reserved ruling will be made public at 3 p.m. on Thursday, June 27.
The couple’s appeal for the annulment of their conviction in the aforementioned case has been postponed until July 2 for hearing.
It should be recalled that in January, Bushra’s ex-husband Khawar Maneka questioned the validity of the couple’s marriage and called their nikah phony, emphasizing that the union was formally sealed during her iddat, the period of seclusion a woman experiences following a divorce or the death of her spouse.
The pair was subsequently given a seven-year sentence in February and fined Rs 500,000 apiece by a trial court.
