• District and Sessions judge Zafar Iqbal heard the case.
• Babar Awan asked the court to exempt Imran Khan.
• Court directed to submit a written statement of Imran Khan.

ISLAMABAD: District and Sessions court extended the bail of Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Imran Khan in a case filed against him after demonstrations were held following his disqualification by the ECP in Toshakhana case.

District and Sessions judge Zafar Iqbal resumed the hearing where the PTI chairman’s counsel Babar Awan and PML-N leader and plaintiff Mohsin Shah Nawaz Ranjha were also present in the court.

Babar asked the court to exempt PTI chairman Imran Khan from personal appearance on medical basis.

The sessions court accepted the plea and exempted him from personal appearance.

The court directed to submit a written statement of Imran Khan and his bail was extended till February 27.

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Earlier, Islamabad High Court (IHC) granted permission to PTI’s Chief Imran Khan to submit extra documents till March 1 in a case seeking his disqualification for hiding information about his alleged daughter Tyrian White in his nomination papers.

A larger bench of the IHC headed by Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and comprising Justice Mohsin Akhter Kayani and Justice Arbab Muhammad Tahir heard the case.