PTI founders Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi were sentenced to 7 years imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5.5 lakh in the illegal marriage case.
The decision, which was reserved after a long hearing on Friday night, was pronounced by Senior Civil Judge Qudratullah in Adiala Jail.
After Cipher and Tosha Khana, this is the third case against Imran Khan in 4 days that was decided.
The petitioner in this case is former first lady Bushra Bibi’s ex-husband Khawar Maneka, who claims that Bushra Bibi married Imran Khan before the end of her period of Eid.
Khawar Manika filed a petition against Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi on November 25, 2023 and requested the court to give a severe punishment.
The petitioner was of the view that after the issue of marriage during Eid came to the fore, Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi remarried through Mufti Saeed in February 2018, their action is a serious offense under Section 496/496B of the Pakistan Penal Code. .
Affidavit of Khavarmanika
On December 11, 2023, the local court of Islamabad declared the petition filed by Khawar Manika admissible.
According to Khawar Manika’s written statement submitted to the court in this regard, Bushra Bibi was introduced to Imran Khan by her sister Maryam during the Islamabad sit-in, then Imran Khan introduced her to him for the purpose of ‘Peri Muridi’. Houses started coming and entering and Khawar continued to come home in their absence.
Khawar Manika claimed that she had once thrown Imran Khan out of the house. Imran also kept coming home with his former advisor Zulfi Bukhari.
The statement further stated that Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi were in telephonic contact, for which the SIM was provided by Bushra Bibi’s friend Farah Gogi.
In the affidavit submitted to the court, Khawar Maneka further said that she divorced Bushra Bibi on November 14, 2017 because she was tired of all these things. There was a case, but after all the things came to the media, they brought the case to the court.
Bushra Bibi’s position
The statement of 342 was recorded yesterday by founder PTI and Bashri Bibi in the case, both of them were given a questionnaire in this regard.
In her 342 statement, the former first lady told the court that her period was over by January 1, 2018. Khawar Manika gave a verbal divorce in April 2017, the divorce she submitted in November 2017 is fake.
According to Bushra Bibi’s statement, she met Imran Khan before January 1, 2018 in the presence of her family, the official announcement of the marriage was made in February 2018 and it was a prayer ceremony, not a marriage ceremony. The allegations of extra-Sharia relations are false. are
Bushra Bibi said Khawarmanika remained in custody till November 14, 2023, after which she filed a complaint which is malicious.
Yesterday’s hearing
Yesterday, on February 2, the hearing of the marriage case started at 9:30 in the morning, which continued for 14 hours, i.e. 11:00 at night.
During the hearing, Aoun Chaudhry, Khawarmanika, Mufti Saeed and employee Hanif were cross-examined.
It should be remembered that two days ago, Judge Muhammad Basheer of the Accountability Court sentenced PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to 14 and 14 years of hard labor in the Tosha Khana case.
The court disqualified both of them from holding any public office for 10 years, a total fine of Rs.
A day before this, the Special Official Secrets Act court had also sentenced Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi to 10 years in jail in the cipher case.