The Federal Constitutional Court (FCC) will take up next week the pleas of three inmates of Adiala jail seeking treatment at private hospitals similar to the facilities granted to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan.

A three-member FCC bench, headed by Chief Justice Aminuddin Khan and comprising Justice Aamir Farooq and Justice Ali Baqar Najafi, will take up on Sept 14, three separate petitions, filed against the decision of the Islamabad High Court (IHC).

Muhammad Ilyas Khan, Mohammad Ismail Hussain and Owais Altaf had approached the FCC the other day praying for setting aside the IHC decision dismissing their pleas, seeking the same medical facilities granted to Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) founding chairman Imran Khan at a private hospital.

A single-member IHC bench had dismissed their petitions on August 31. The high court held that a prisoner had no legal right to be transferred to a private hospital of his choice.