Maintaining the admissibility of a petition, a district courtroom in Islamabad on Tuesday summoned PTI Chairman Imran Khan and his spouse Bushra Bibi on July 20 over their nikkah allegedly now not in compliance with Shariah.
District and Sessions Court Islamabad Judicial Magistrate Qudratullah issued a 9-page designated judgment that the “unlawful” marriage case towards the deposed most desirable changed into admissible.
On Friday, Additional District and Sessions Judge Islamabad Muhammad Azam Khan had remanded the case to a civil judge.
He had additionally brushed off any other civil court’s verdict declaring the plea difficult the legality of the marriage inadmissible.
Judge Azam, in his order, wrote that the petitioner stated that the civil courtroom in Islamabad had disregarded his case on the premise of jurisdiction however it is able to be heard inside the federal capital as well as Lahore because the nikkah turned into held inside the provincial capital of Punjab and the PTI chairman stayed with Bushra at his Bani Gala house after the wedding.
Judicial Magistrate Qudratullah’s verdict examine that the petitioner had maintained that Bushra married Imran all through her length of Iddat.
Iddat is the period that a female ought to observe after the demise of her husband or after a divorce, throughout which she should now not marry any other man.
The judgment mentioned that according to the statement of nikkah khawan Mufti Saeed, he had solemnised the wedding of the PTI chairman and Bushra twice — first on January 1, 2018 and the second one time in February 2018.
Saeed stated he had solemnised Imran’s nikkah with Bushra on January 1, 2018, over the assurance of a girl, who claimed to be the former first female’s sister.
After the wedding in January, it became stated that Bushra was in a duration of Iddat.
The nikkah khawan become informed approximately Bushra’s Iddat duration within the presence of Imran’s former near aide, Awn Chaudry.
Saeed quoted Imran as announcing that Bushra became divorced in November 2017, including that there was a “prediction” that the PTI chief might come to be the high minister of the u . S . If he married her.
According to the petitioner, the primary marriage occurred in Lahore even as the second one in Islamabad.
The judgment examine that once the primary marriage, Imran and Bushra had started residing together at the previous’s house in Bani Gala.
According to the suggest for the petitioner, marriage during iddat became against the law.
He delivered that the PTI chief and Bushra had been living together after an “illegal” marriage.
The courtroom judgment stated that the problem fell in the jurisdiction of an Islamabad courtroom as Bani Gala became inside the limits of the federal capital.