The Supreme Court of Pakistan has declared the arrest of country’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan illegal, Geo News reported.
The top ordered authorities to produce Khan before court withing an hour.
An anti-corruption court in Pakistan on Wednesday (May 10) sent former prime minister Imran Khan on an eight-day physical remand to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) while a sessions court here indicted him in a separate graft case.
The 70-year-old chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was taken into custody by the paramilitary Rangers on Tuesday on the orders of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) by barging into a room of the Islamabad High Court.
On Wednesday, court indicted Khan in the Toshakhana case on charges of illegally selling state gifts during his premiership between 2018-22.
The indictment came a day after Imran Khan was arrested by the country’s paramilitary force on the orders of an anti-graft agency in another corruption case.
