IHC rejects plea seeking Imran’s disqualification
Tyrian White case
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Tuesday rejected the petition seeking Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan’s disqualification in the Tyrian White case. A new IHC bench took up the plea today filed against Khan for not disclosing his alleged daughter in the nomination papers filed for contesting 2018 general elections. The bench comprising Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, Justice Arbab Mohammad Tahir and Justice Saman Rafat Imtiaz heard the case. The case had been pending since May 2023 after a three-member bench hearing the case was dissolved by IHC Chief Justice Aamer Farooq.
The decision was taken after the opinions of two judges regarding the plea’s maintainability were uploaded on the court website.
The bench comprised IHC CJ Aamer Farooq, Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani and Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir and had reserved the verdict in the case on March 30 last year. However, Justice Kayani and Justice Tahir had opined against the petition’s maintainability and uploaded their opinion on the IHC official website which was later removed.
The high court explained that without the signatures of the bench head Justice Farooq, the opinion of two judges could not be declared the bench verdict and uploaded to the court website.
