IHC resume twice a week meetings of Imran Khan in Adiala jail

ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday resumed bi-weekly meetings of imprisoned Former Prime Minister Imran Khan, allowing him to meet every Tuesday and Thursday.

A three-member larger bench headed by acting Chief Justice of IHC Justice Sarfaraz Dogar heard the petition related to the visitation rights and jail condition of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insf (PTI) Founder.

The bench also included Justices Arbab Muhammad Tahir and Muhammad Azam Khan.

The court ruled that not everyone can come with a request for a meeting and that only those individuals whose names are provided by the PTI founder’s coordinator Salman Akram Raja will be permitted to meet him.

Furthermore, the court added that there would be no media discussions following the meetings.

According to the counsel of the Adiala jail’s superintendent, the PTI founder was permitted to hold two meetings every week on Tuesday following the jail menu.

The PTI founder’s status was changed from an undertrial prisoner to a convicted prisoner after January, he told the court.

The acting chief justice stated that over 100 applications for jail meetings had been filed, with around 98 being settled.

Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir said that the SOPs for Tuesday and Thursday’s sessions had been specified in the appeal, to which lawyer Naveed Malik responded that due to security concerns, we had convened two meetings on Tuesday rather than two days.