Overview
- On Friday the Chief Justice Yahya Afridi set aside objections from the Supreme Court registrar, ordered the petition assigned a case number and directed early fixation before a bench while requiring counsel to file a signed vakalatnama.
- The petition asks that Imran Khan be transferred from Adiala Jail to Shifa International Hospital and seeks access for family and four named private physicians plus an independent medical examination.
- The registrar had earlier returned the filing because it lacked a signed power of attorney, and Khan’s chamber appeal argued that questions of maintainability must be decided by judges not by registrar office staff.
- The court ordered the petition to be heard together with a similar petition filed by Dr Uzma Khan, Imran Khan’s sister, consolidating parallel challenges to earlier Islamabad High Court rulings on transfer and access.
- No substantive ruling has been made on transfer or medical access yet, and the procedural clearance could affect future disputes over detained people’s right to private medical care and the boundary between registrar administrative powers and judicial review.