Guwahati: The Islamabad High Court’s CCTV footage from the former Pakistani prime minister Imran Khan’s detention on May 9 has purportedly been stolen.
The announcement that CCTV footage was stolen from the courthouse has angered the Islamabad High Court. It is strange, according to Justice Mian Gul Hassan, that nobody attempted to stop the burglars as they were fleeing with the CCTV footage.
One of the judges on the division bench who heard the PTI leader’s bail request on Friday and rendered a decision was Justice Hassan.
According to reports, the Pakistan Rangers bursting in via the windows on May 9 when Imran Khan was sat in the Biometrics room is captured on all of the CCTV footage from that day. The judges were told of this by the Islamabad High Court administration.
The judges appeared concerned that nobody might have seen the thieves depart with the CCTV equipment after the entire control room system had been taken. The only video evidence is that which was captured on cell phones at the time of the arrest.
On instructions from the National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Imran Khan was taken into custody on Tuesday in connection with a corruption case. He was forcibly taken into custody while on the grounds of the Islamabad High Court, when he was there for biometrics prior to a corruption case hearing.
Following this, the nation was claimed to have experienced massive violent protests by the previous prime minister’s followers.
Khan’s arrest was labelled “illegal” by the nation’s Supreme Court earlier today. A three-judge panel that included Chief Justice of Pakistan Umar Ata Bandial, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, and Justice Athar Minallah issued the ruling. They expressed rage at the way Khan was removed from the high court’s grounds in Islamabad and brought into detention.
According to a local media report, CJP Bandial called Khan’s detention outside of the courthouse a shame to the nation’s justice system.
The Islamabad High Court then granted the former PM a two-week protective bail. Khan was further ordered by the court not to be arrested until May 17. The court further ordered not to arrest him in any case filed after May 9.