The Supreme Court on Monday directed the Union and the Delhi government to file Statutory Leave Petitions (SLPs) in connection with six cases in which various accused persons of the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots had been granted acquittals.
The Supreme Court on Monday said that appeals challenging the acquittals of accused persons in the 1984 Anti-Sikh Riots cases need to be filed seriously by prosecution agencies and not just for the sake of it.
The ATC judge in Rawalpindi heard the acquittal plea of Imran Khan in the May 9 case on Monday. After the prosecution completed its arguments, the ATC court rejected Imran Khan's acquittal plea, as per ARY News.
Imran Khan and his wife, filed the appeal through their attorneys, Barrister Salman Safdar and Advocate Khalid Yousuf Chaudhry. Bushra Bibi appeared in person before the court to complete biometric verification.
A bench of Justices BR Gavai and Augustine George Masih directed its registry to summon the trial court records in other connected matters expeditiously and supply its copies to the lawyers appearing in the matter.
The Supreme Court on Friday issued notice to the self-styled Godman and Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and four others on a plea of CBI challenging the judgment of the Punjab and Haryana High Court acquitting them in the 2002 murder of the sect's former manager Ranjit Singh.
Shehbaz Sharif and Hamza Shehbaz filed pleas in the anti-corruption court via their lawyer Amjad Pervaiz. Pervaiz demanded acquittal of the father and son duo in the case citing absence of proof of alleged corruption, ARY News reported.
The Delhi High Court in a recent judgement not only dismissed the plea seeking leave to appeal against acquittal in a false attempt to rape case, but also admonish the state authorities for filing a frivolous litigation.
An accountability court has rejected the petitions of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, seeking acquittal in the £190 million corruption case.
During the hearing at the accountability court in Rawalpindi's Adiala jail on Saturday, PTI founder filed a petition for acquittal in the case that accused Imran Khan and his wife, Bushra Bibi, of causing a loss of billions of rupees to the national exchequer.