An unpleasant situation developed outside a court in Islamabad on Wednesday when prior to pronouncement of the decision in the illegal nikah case against former prime minister and PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi, PTI lawyers and party workers attacked Khawar Maneka, the petitioner in the case. PTI female workers threw bottles at Maneka and even had a scuffle with him, while PTI lawyers slapped him inside the courtroom. As the Islamabad district and sessions court did not announce its already reserved verdict in the Iddat case against Imran Khan and Bushra Bibi, the complainant, Khawar Maneka – the former husband of Bushra Bibi – was assaulted outside the court.

Judge Shahrukh Arjumand went back to his chamber without announcing the verdict after Maneka expressed distrust in the judge. As the judge left the courtroom, the PTI lawyers hurled bottles at Khawar Maneka over using abusing language against the party founder and his wife. The court had reserved its verdict last week on appeals filed by the PTI founder and his wife against their conviction in the Iddat case, which was the third and last in a series of verdicts announced just a few days before the general elections. A video clip on TV channels showed Maneka, dressed in a white shalwar-kameez, walking outside court as men, who appeared to be lawyers, thrashed him.

Credit: Independent News Pakistan