Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan has secured preventive bail from arrest by the Lahore excessive courtroom until March 3 in a case pertaining to protests exterior the Election Fee of Pakistan workplace, Geo TV reported.

The bail to 70-year-old Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief by excessive courtroom justice Ali Baqar Najafi comes after excessive drama exterior the Lahore excessive courtroom premises. An enormous crowd of PTI supporters had gathered exterior the courtroom to welcome Khan as he arrived for listening to. He granted two deadlines of 5 pm and seven:30 pm to seem earlier than the bench.

Social media was flooded with movies of Khan’s convoy being showered with rose petals because it made its technique to the courtroom. Large police deployment was put in place on the foremost gate of the courtroom.

Final week, an anti-terror courtroom in Islamabad had rejected the ex-PM’s plea for an extension in his interim bail within the case.

A terrorism case was filed towards the previous cricket captain final October after his social gathering staff took to the streets exterior the Pakistan EC places of work following the disqualification of their chief within the Toshakhana case.

Clashes have been reported between the protesting PTI staff and police in cities together with Islamabad, Peshawar and Karachi. The courtroom had granted Khan a pre-arrest bail in October final yr and summoned him on a number of events. However the PTI chief had failed to seem within the courtroom, citing medical grounds on account of accidents obtained in an assassination try.