Contempt case: IHC to indict Imran Khan tomorrow.

Islamabad -- Chairman PTI Imran Khan will be indicted by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) tomorrow (Thursday) in a contempt case for his controversial remarks about Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry.

The IHC, on September 8, had decided to formally frame contempt of court charges against Imran Khan after finding his response 'unsatisfactory'.

A five-member bench, headed by IHC CJ Justice Athar Minallah, and comprising Justices Mohsin Akhtar KayAani, Miangul Hassan AurAanAgzeb, Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, and Babar Sattar, unanimously decided to indict Imran Khan.

IHC decides to indict Imran in contempt case on Sept 22

The Case

Imran Khan, while addressing a rally at F-9 park, in Islamabad, on August 20, alleged that Judge Zeba Chaudhry knew that incarcerated party leader Shahbaz Gill was tortured, but she did not release him on bail. He threatened to take 'action' against the judge and the Islamabad IG and DIG police.

Following the speech, the IHC registrar Farhan Aziz Khawaja put up a note regarding the 'threatening remarks' of the PTI leader about the lady judge before the then-acting Chief Justice Aamer Farooq.

After consultation with the other senior judges, the acting CJ served contempt of court notice on Imran Khan and formed a larger bench comprising Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Justice Babar Sattar, and Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb to hear the contempt case.

Khan's first response to show-cause notice

In his first response to the show-cause notice, Imran Khan told the IHC that due to 'serious misunderstanding and misconception' he misunderstood that female Judge Zeba Chaudhry was not a judicial officer but an executive magistrate performing executive functions under the federal government's directions.

In the response, he did not apologise for threatening the additional sessions judge, offering, however, to withdraw...