A stay order was issued on Tuesday by a division bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the chairman PTI’s jail trial in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act. Judges Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb and Saman Raffat Imtiaz made up the two-judge bench that heard the PTI chairman’s intra-court appeal (ICA) against his jail trial. During the hearing, Salman Akram Raja, the petitioner’s attorney, and Mansoor Usman Awan, the Pakistani attorney general, both presented arguments. Judge Miangul Hassan stated at the beginning of the session that the manner in which the allegations against the PTI chairman were adopted did not constitute an open court proceeding. According to him, it was not open court when a few accused family members were allowed to attend the trial.