ISLAMABAD: The lawyers of Former chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry will announce their plan against the allegations levelled against the former CJ by PTI chief Imran Khan.
Sources said Chaudhry’s legal team will initiate proceedings against the PTI supremo if the latter fails to prove the allegations he has been levelling against the former chief justice.
Chaudhry’s lawyers will announce their course of action in a press conference Thursday afternoon outside the apex court premises, sources added.
The PTI chief had accused the former chief justice of poll rigging in the 2013 general election.
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Moreover, Chaudhry’s son, Arsalan Iftikhar, had recently alleged that Imran did not fulfill the criterion set for being an elected representative of the people, as described in Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution.
Arsalan had said that there were doubts on Imran’s credibility to be elected as a parliamentarian.
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Also recently, two lawyers had filed petitions against the PTI chief citing that the statements made by him maligned the former chief justice and other judges of the Supreme Court.