Islamabad : Pronouncing the decision, PTI Chairman and former Prime Minister Imran Khan is disqualified for 5 years, his seat in the National Assembly was declared vacant .
A five-member bench headed by the Chief Election Commissioner gave a unanimous decision.
Foolproof security arrangements were made on the occasion while the Election Commission courtroom was filled with a large number of journalists, lawyers and party leaders. Among the leaders were Fawad Chaudhry, Asad Umar, Umar Ayub, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Sherry Mazari, Faisal Javed, Malika Bukhari and others.
In its decision, the Election Commission disqualified Imran Khan for the crime of concealing assets in the Tosha Khana reference and ordered criminal action against him. After the decision, Imran Khan ceased to be a Member of the Assembly and the Election Commission also declared his National Assembly seat vacant.
The Election Commission declared that Imran Khan was involved in corrupt practices, he is being disqualified under Article 63 OneP for submitting a false statement, and criminal action should be initiated against him.
The Election Commission declared Imran Khan guilty of misdeclaration and said that Imran Khan deliberately submitted false returns to the Election Commission and did not disclose the gifts received in the returns. The amount was not disclosed.
The judgment said that the bank records submitted by Imran Khan were inconsistent with the value of the gifts, the stand he took in his reply was vague, he also concealed facts in the returns for the financial year 2020-21, which resulted in They violated Sections 137, 167 and 173 of the Election Act.
According to the Tosha Khana reference document against Imran Khan, Imran Khan received gifts worth 142 million 42 thousand rupees from Tosha Khana, while gifts worth more than 30 thousand rupees were received by paying.
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Imran Khan paid Rs 3 crore 81 lakh 77 thousand of these gifts and did not pay the gifts worth Rs 8 lakh. Imran Khan’s wife received necklaces, rings, rings and bracelets worth Rs.
In the reference document, the original value of the watch acquired by Imran Khan is 85 million rupees, the actual value of the cuff links is 56 lakh rupees, the original value of the pen is 15 lakh rupees and the original value of the ring is 87 lakh rupees.
Background of Tosha Khana Reference Case
Earlier in August, Speaker National Assembly Raja Pervez Ashraf had sent a reference to the Election Commission for the disqualification of Imran Khan in the light of the Tosha Khana case, in which it was alleged that Imran Khan had sold gifts from the Tosha Khana. The income earned was not shown in the assets.
Written reply from Imran Khan
The reference filed under Article 63 of the Constitution sought the disqualification of Imran Khan under Article 62 1F. Later, Imran Khan submitted his written response to the Election Commission on September 7 in connection with the Tosha Khana reference, according to which 58 gifts were given to the Prime Minister and his wife between August 1, 2018 and December 31, 2021.
In his reply, he said that in all these gifts, there were only 14 items worth more than 30,000 rupees, which he had bought by paying money under the regular procedure. In his reply, Imran Khan had admitted that he had sold 4 gifts during his tenure as Prime Minister.
