FCC rejects Bushra Bibi plea to suspend £190m sentence

A two-member Federal Constitutional Court bench headed by Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan turned down Bushra Bibi’s plea to suspend her seven-year sentence in the £190 million case.

The Federal Constitutional Court on Wednesday turned down Bushra Bibi’s plea to suspend her sentence in the £190 million case.

Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan headed the two-member bench. Justice Ali Baqar Najafi sat with him.

An accountability court had already sentenced her to seven years and a Rs500,000 fine. Imran Khan was sentenced to 14 years and a Rs1 million fine in the same case.

The court told her lawyer, Salman Safdar, to file his points in writing. Dunya News reported that the petition was declared inadmissible.

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