{"id":12616,"date":"2022-12-12T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T12:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=12616"},"modified":"2022-12-12T12:01:39","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T12:01:39","slug":"toshakhana-court-to-announce-verdict-on-ecp-plea-against-imran-khan-on-dec-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/toshakhana-court-to-announce-verdict-on-ecp-plea-against-imran-khan-on-dec-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Toshakhana: Court to announce verdict on ECP plea against Imran Khan on Dec 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toshakhana: Court to announce verdict on ECP plea against Imran Khan on Dec 15. A district and sessions court in Islamabad Monday reserved the verdict on a petition filed by the Election Commission of Pakistan<\/a> (ECP) in the Toshakana case.<\/p>\n

On November 22, the trial court took up the Toshakhana reference filed by Election Commission against Khan for allegedly indulging in corrupt practices, which the former premier denies.<\/p>\n

As per the electoral body’s order, the trial court in Islamabad sent a notice to the PTI chief in the trial opened against him in the Toshakhana reference.<\/p>\n

Later, Additional Sessions Judge Zafar Iqbal adjourned the hearing till December 8, 2022.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0Supreme Court serves notice to Imran Khan in ECP contempt case<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

At the outset of the hearing, ECP’s lawyer Saad Hassan appeared before the court and presented his arguments.<\/p>\n

“Imran Khan said that he constructed a road with the money [acquired from] Toshakhana [gifts],” he said, adding that a prime minister has to deposit any gift they receive to the Toshakhana.<\/p>\n

He further stated that the Toshakhana gifts could be retained after paying 20% of the gift’s price until the PTI government introduced a new law which allowed taking the Toshakhana gifts after paying 50% of its price.<\/p>\n

“The price of the watch was estimated at Rs85 million,” he said, adding that Khan failed to state the amount for which he sold the Toshakhana watch.<\/p>\n

Hassan stated if any Toshakhana items were transferred then it was mandatory to mention them in the tax income statements.<\/p>\n

“It is not possible to personally own an item from the Toshakhana without declaring it,” said the lawyer.<\/p>\n

He said that the Election Commission “believes the income tax statements provided by the former premier in 2022-2021 are correct”, adding that the Toshakhana matter was brought to the National Assembly and the case was taken to the high court in 2020-2021.<\/p>\n

Lawyer Hassan said that Khan’s way of dealing with the Toshakhana gifts is tantamount to money laundering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toshakhana: Court to announce verdict on ECP plea against Imran Khan on Dec 15. A district and sessions court in Islamabad Monday reserved the verdict on a petition filed by the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in the Toshakana case. On November 22, the trial court took up the Toshakhana reference filed by Election Commission […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[491,148,103,194],"class_list":["post-12616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-election-commission-of-pakistan","tag-ecp","tag-imran-khan","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}