Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founder Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, will be indicted in the fresh Toshakhana case on November 18.
The couple’s indictment date was announced by a special court of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) which also dismissed the acquittal pleas filed by the former prime minister and ex-first lady in the said case.
The court had reserved its verdict on the suspects’ acquittal pleas on November 8.
The case at hand pertains to an alleged illegal sale of a jewellery set gifted to Bushra by the Saudi crown prince when her husband Khan was the prime minister of the country from 2018 to 2022.Play Video
However, it is not to be mixed with the first Toshakhana case wherein the couple was sentenced to 14 years in prison and was handed down a fine of Rs1.57 billion — Rs787 million each — in January.
The couple’s sentence in the first (old) Toshakhana case was suspended by the Islamabad High Court (IHC) in April.
The announcement of the indictment date in the new Toshakhana case comes as the former first lady, last month, was released from Adiala jail after months-long incarceration after the IHC accepted her bail plea against Rs1 million surety bonds.
