ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has fixed 13 different petitions concerning PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, for hearing on Monday (February 9), it emerged on Saturday.
According to the supplementary cause list issued, a two-judge bench comprising SC Chief Justice Yahya Afridi and Shahid Bilal Hassan will take up the petitions at 9am on Monday.
Among the petitions fixed for hearing are the Punjab government’s appeal against the granting of bail to the PTI founder and his wife.
Further, Imran’s appeal against the case registered against him under the Official Secrets Act and the National Accountability Bureau case against the ex-premier in relation to the Al-Qadir University Trust was also fixed for hearing.
The court will also take up a petition filed against the acquittal of Imran and former foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi in the cipher case.
Further, the Punjab government’s appeal against bail granted to Imran in May 9 cases was also fixed for hearing.
Meanwhile, Imran’s appeal against a Rs10 billion defamation lawsuit filed by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif was also fixed for hearing.
Imran has been in jail since August 2023, convicted in a string of cases he says were politically driven following his ouster in a 2022 no-confidence vote.
His first conviction was in the Toshakhana case and centred on accusations that he unlawfully sold gifts received in office. Later verdicts added lengthy jail terms, including 10 years in the cipher case and 14 years in the Al Qadir Trust corruption case. Last month, both him and his wife were handed 17 years imprisonment in another Toshakhana case.
