Welivego

Additionally, senior civil judge Qudratullah fines the former premier and his wife Rs 500,000 apiece.

RAWALPINDI: As per WELIVEGO NEWS, Imran Khan, the founder of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), and his wife Bushra Bibi were each given seven years in prison by a trial court on Saturday in connection with the "un-Islamic nikah" case at the Adiala Prison.

The pair, who appeared in court during the sentencing phase, also received fines of Rs. 500,000 apiece, and their refusal to pay will result in an extra four months in prison.

Today, senior civil judge Qudratullah delivered the verdict. The day before, the case hearing was held inside the jail premises for fourteen hours.

The judge issued the court's verdict in the case about the plea filed by Bushra Bibi's ex-husband Khawar Maneka against what he refers to as an un-Islamic and illegal nikah with the former prime minister.
Four witnesses in the case gave the statements, which were later cross-examined during the proceedings, while Khan and Bushra Bibi also recorded their statements under section 342. 
Following the conclusion of the proceedings yesterday, the court has reserved its verdict.

In the case of Bushra Bibi's ex-husband Khawar Maneka, who filed a plea against what he calls an un-Islamic and illegal nikah with the former prime minister, the judge rendered the court's decision.

The statements were made by four witnesses in the case; they were later cross-examined throughout the trial, and section 342 also documented the statements made by Khan and Bushra Bibi. 

During sessions at Adiala jail, Bushra Bibi, who was placed under house arrest at her Banigala property after it was constituted a sub-jail, was brought before the court. The couple's attorneys as well as Imran, who is still detained at the institution, were present when the verdict was announced. 

Nikah on the day of IDDAT

Maneka had called Bushra and Khan's nikkah "fraudulent" in his appeal, arguing that the union was consummated after her divorce from him, during her iddat.

According to the appeal made accessible to WELIVEGO News, "that above said nikah and the marriage ceremony was neither legal nor Islamic as it was solemnized without observing the iddah period."

Also, he declared in the plea that the PTI leader "stigmatized the complainant and his family just to achieve his unethical and immoral objects through intrusion in the complainant's peaceful marital life" and that the former prime minister had "ruined his entire life."