[🇵🇰] In yet another conviction, Imran and Bushra Bibi handed 7-year jail sentences in Iddat case

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Source: https://www.dawn.com/news/1810889/in-yet-another-conviction-imran-and-bushra-bibi-handed-7-year-jail-sentences-in-iddat-case

In yet another conviction, Imran and Bushra Bibi handed 7-year jail sentences in Iddat case​

Umer Burney
February 3, 2024

A Rawalpindi court on Saturday sentenced former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to seven years in jail each in a case related to their marriage during the latter’s Iddat period.

Senior civil judge Qudratullah announced the verdict on the complaint filed by Bushra’s former husband Khawar Fareed Maneka in a makeshift court at the Adiala district jail. The court also imposed Rs500,000 fines each on the couple.

According to the written order, a copy of which is available with Dawn.com, the two were found guilty under Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) Section 496 (marriage ceremony fraudulently gone through without lawful marriage)

According to legal precedence, Section 496 is considered an offence completely distinct from zina, an offence that ensues from not having a contracted marriage.

The order further said that the two would be imprisoned for a further four months if they failed to pay the fines.

The verdict comes in the same week Imran and Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 14 years in the Toshakhana case. Imran and fellow PTI leader Shah Mehmood Qureshi also received a 10-year sentence in the cipher case this week.

 

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Lawyers, civil society denounce ‘intellectual bankruptcy’ in Iddat case verdict​

Former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi’s conviction and sentencing to seven years of imprisonment in the Iddat case has generated a strong backlash from lawyers and civil society who have denounced the verdict.

Lawyer Basil Nabi Malik told Dawn.com that when a former prime minister’s marriage resulted in not only a seven-year conviction but also a fine, “one should not only be worried about where we are headed but also about the intellectual bankruptcy of our preoccupations.”

Lawyer Abdul Moiz Jaferii referred to the verdict as a “joke”, saying that they “serve only to expose the circus that is our judicial system. They bring to the world the rot that is the rule of law in our country.”

 

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Kal ko kissy nay kehnay ae k twannu subah saweray tuttian nahi aandi tay tussi kaafir ho!......Our country has gone to hell in a hand basket.