Court dismisses acquittal pleas filed by PTI founder and wife in case of alleged sale of State gifts

RAWALPINDI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, will be indicted in the fresh Toshakhana case on November 18.

The couple’s indictment date was announced by a special court of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) which also dismissed the acquittal pleas filed by the former prime minister and ex-first lady in the said case.

The court had reserved its verdict on the suspect’s acquittal pleas on November 8.

The case at hand pertains to an alleged illegal sale of a jewellery set gifted to Bushra Bibi by the Saudi crown prince when her husband Imran Khan was the prime minister of the country from 2018 to 2022.

However, it is not to be mixed with the first Toshakhana case wherein the couple was sentenced to 14 years in prison and was handed down a fine of Rs. 1.57 billion — Rs. 787 million each — in January.

The couple’s sentence in the first (old) Toshakhana case was suspended by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in April. (Geo News)

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