Imran Khan, Bushra Bibi were banned from rhetoric against state institutions

Islamabad Accountability Court restrained founder PTI and Bushra Bibi from speaking against state institutions and their officials.

Accountability Court Judge Basir Javed Rana issued a major order on the petition of PTI, the founder of Fair Trial, in which the court also stopped speaking against the state institutions and their officials in the court room during the trial.

According to the order, it is alleged that the founder PTI made political, provocative and biased statements against the honorable person of the state institutions, while the statements regarding the judiciary, Pakistan Army and Army Chief are tantamount to disrupting the judicial decorum, such The statements also cause obstruction in the process of dispensation of justice. It is the duty of the court to observe the requirements of court decorum and fair trial.

The court ordered that the jail authorities should restore the jail court to its pre-Eid position while the accused shall not make political, provocative and biased statements even with reference to state institutions and their officials. The media will limit its reporting to the extent of the court proceedings and the media will not report the statements of the accused during the court proceedings of the trial.

The order states that the prosecution, the accused and their lawyers shall not make inflammatory, political and biased statements during the hearing which may harm the decorum of the court. will

The court ordered the media to refrain from publishing political, inflammatory narratives targeting state institutions and their officials, subject to the PEMRA guidelines that prohibit discussing pending cases and According to the Pemra Code of Conduct, the political statement of the accused does not come in legal reporting.