Islamabad district and sessions court declared on Saturday an application pleading that the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan’s marriage was ‘illegal’ inadmissible. The court further added that the matter of marriage during the period of iddat was beyond its jurisdiction. Civil Senior Judge Nasr Minullah Baloch had reserved his decision and announced the plea was inadmissible. The alleged un-Islamic nikkah of Imran and Bushra Bibi was brought to light by a petition filed by Muhammad Hanif, a citizen of Pakistan. Mufti Saeed, the cleric who solemnised the couple’s marriage, had claimed that the initial ceremony was not conducted in accordance with Islamic Sharia law. The court inquired how the former premier’s marriage in Lahore became the jurisdiction of the Islamabad sessions court. The petitioner’s lawyer said that the “fraud” started at Bani Gala and the marriage took place in Lahore, while the process of the marriage started in Islamabad, so the matter would fall under the jurisdiction of the Islamabad court.