Bushra Bibi, the wife of former prime minister Imran Khan, filed a request on Wednesday to be transferred from their Banigala home, which had been designated a sub-jail, to Adiala Jail, where her husband is presently serving a sentence. The Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted her request.
The verdict was rendered by Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, who had reserved it for the previous week.
Despite the fact that Bushra Bibi’s petition was dismissed last month because her attorneys neglected to show up for court, a plea was submitted that same day asking for its reinstatement.
Following her and Imran’s 14-year jail term in the Toshakhana matter, an accountability court in Islamabad placed the former first lady under arrest on January 31.
She is still being held in the Iddat case even though the IHC suspended their sentences in the Toshakhana reference on April 1. In other circumstances, Imran is still behind bars.
Bushra had come to Adiala Jail, where the team from the National Accountability Bureau was already there, to turn himself in to the police, following the Toshakhana ruling. It was the anti-graft watchdog that later arrested her.
However, following a late-night notification designating it as a sub-jail, she was relocated to her Banigala residence. Since she and her husband refused to file an application to designate the property as a sub-jail, the topic of her moving to the residence has been discussed for months.
Bushra Bibi had contested the residence’s classification as a sub-jail and pleaded with the IHC to allow her to serve the remainder of her 14-year sentence in Adiala Jail, about a week after her detention.
The management of Adiala Jail had objected to her being sent back to the prison in a later session, saying that the former first lady’s security was at risk due to overcrowding.
Justice Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb had questioned in March if Imran had been consulted before the authorities turned his Banigala home into a sub-jail.
