RAWALPINDI: After the Supreme Court’s landmark verdict on the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) amendments, an accountability court on Monday transferred the new Toshakhana reference against the PTI founder Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi to a relevant court. The development was witnessed during a hearing of the incarcerated premier and former first lady’s bail petitions in the new Toshakhana reference related to a jewellery set gifted by the Saudi crown prince. Accountability court’s Judge Muhammad Ali Warraich heard the bail pleas of the PTI founder and his wife at a makeshift court in Rawalpindi’s Adiala Jail. The ex-PM and his wife were produced before the court. At the outset of the hearing, PTI founder’s lawyer Salman Safdar told the court that the new reference could not be heard by any accountability court under existing laws which came into effect after the restoration of the NAB. amendments. He pleaded with the accountability court to transfer the reference to another court after giving a verdict on the bail petitions. Last week, a larger bench of the top court headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faiz had approved the intra-court appeals filed by the federal government and restored the amendments made to the National Accountability Ordinance, 1999 via the National Accountability (Amendment) Act, 2022. It was a unanimous verdict by the larger bench which was reserved on June 6 following the intra-court appeals against the top court’s verdict that struck down the amendments to the NAB law passed by the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) government in 2022 in response to the petition filed by the PTI founder.