Overview
- Police brought a fresh challan in the Tarnol Azadi March case on Tuesday, and the magistrate dismissed it after checking the 2024 acquittal.
- Judicial Magistrate Shehzad Khan asked the defense to submit the earlier order, then consigned the new filing to the court record with no proceedings.
- The case traces to PTI’s Haqeeqi Azadi March in November 2022, when police alleged violations of a city protest ban under Section 144.
- A challan is a police charge sheet submitted to start trial, and refiling one after a defendant’s acquittal is highly unusual in Pakistan.
- Imran Khan remains in Adiala Jail on a separate £190 million corruption sentence and still faces Anti‑Terrorism Act trials tied to the May 9, 2023 unrest.