Imran Denies Contempt Of Court Charges.

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Khan, through his counsels submitted before the Islamabad High Court that no contempt of court had been committed by him (Imran Khan) at a public rally at F-9 Park on August 20, and the IHC deputy registrar took the words selectively from the speech made by the respondent.

PTI chief filed his provisional reply in the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in response to a show-cause notice, issued to him for threatening an additional sessions judge of Islamabad. A five-member larger bench of the IHC headed by Chief Justice Athar Minallah and comprising Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, Justice Miangul Hasan Aurangzeb, Justice Babar Sattar and Justice Tariq Mehmood Jehangiri will conduct hearing of the contempt case against Imran on Wednesday (today).

The PTI chairman reply was filed by a panel of six lawyers headed by senior advocate Hamid Khan. It was stated that the present proceedings initiated on the basis of office note of IHC's deputy registrar on 22.08.2022. The petitioner said that the deputy registrar's note, by no such stretch of imagination could amount to criminal and judicial contempt. They submitted that the deputy registrar has no power to initiate such a note on newspaper clipping, and the present proceedings have been initiated without jurisdiction and, are liable to be withdrawn.

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