Pak Supreme Court docket livid at how Imran Khan was arrested, orders he be produced | World News

Pakistan's Supreme Court docket on Thursday ordered the anti-corruption watchdog to supply former prime minister Imran Khan inside an hour because it noticed that the company dedicated "contempt of courtroom" by coming into the courtroom premises and arresting him with out permission from the courtroom's registrar.

The directive was issued by a three-member bench, comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar and Justice Athar Minallah, which heard Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman's plea towards his arrest within the Al-Qadir Belief case on Tuesday.

The bench throughout the listening to expressed anger on the manner 70-year-old Khan was arrested from the premises of the Islamabad Excessive Court docket the place he had come from Lahore for a case.

"What dignity stays of the courtroom if 90 individuals entered its premises? How can any particular person be arrested from courtroom premises?” the chief justice was quoted as saying by the Daybreak newspaper.

"Up to now, motion has been taken towards attorneys for vandalism contained in the courtroom,” he noticed. "If a person has surrendered to the courtroom, then what does arresting them imply?"

The highest decide stated the Nationwide Accountability Bureau (NAB) had dedicated "contempt of courtroom".

"They need to have taken permission from the courtroom’s registrar earlier than the arrest. Court docket staffers had been additionally subjected to abuse,” he added.

The bench directed NAB to supply Khan by 4:30 pm (native time) when the courtroom would reconvene.