‘Imran Khan ready to spend rest of his life in prison’.
Imran Khan’s counsel Naeem Haider Panjotha has claimed that his client has been provided with C-class facilities and is being held in “poor condition” in Attock jail.
According to the report, Panjotha added that the PTI chairman was willing to spend the rest of his life in prison.
The lawyer went on to say that the cell where the PTI chief is being held is infested with flies and bugs.
“The PTI chairman says he is ready to spend the remainder of his life in jail,” the lawyer added.
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Panjotha, the PTI chief’s counsel, made the remark after meeting Khan on Monday.
As ‘Imran Khan ready to spend rest of his life in prison’, on August 5, the deposed Prime Minister was arrested after a district and sessions court in the federal capital convicted him of corrupt practices involving the state gift depository, allegations he denies.
“Charges of misdeclaration of assets have been proven against PTI chairman,” Judge Humayun Dilawar wrote in his judgment, handing Khan three years in jail, along with a fine of PKR 100,000, while issuing an arrest warrant for his immediate arrest.
Khan was transferred to the Attock jail following his arrest.
Khan’s lawyer told reporters on Monday that the former Prime Minister, who was deposed in a parliamentary vote last year, was given a small room “with an open washroom.”
Panjotha went on to say that Khan told him that when he was arrested, police did not show him a warrant and attempted to break the door of his wife Bushra Bibi’s room.
The PTI chief also stated that he should be allowed to visit his wife in prison, according to the counsel.
Panjotha said the appeal against the trial court verdict will be filed on Tuesday and the PTI chief has signed the power of attorney.
Earlier, on Monday, the PTI petitioned the Islamabad High Court (IHC) to transfer Imran Khan from Attock Jail to Adiala Jail, adding that given his “education, habits and social and political status”, he ought to be provided better or A-class facilities in jail.
“Since childhood, the petitioner is from an affluent family, and later due to his education, habits, and social and political status in the society, has got accustomed to a better mode of life… is a graduate of Oxford University, UK, and the … captain of Pakistan national Cricket…,” the petition read.
“Keeping in view the petitioner’s social and political status, his education, and his being accustomed to a better living style, the Petitioner was entitled to A-class facilities in terms of Rule 243 read with Rule 248 of Pakistan Prison Rules,” it added.
