ISLAMABAD: An antiterrorism court on Friday rejected the request of General retired Pervez Musharraf for temporary exemption from court appearances and termed his April 6 medical report ‘fake’.

The ruling regarding the former military ruler's certificate came during the hearing of the judges' detention case

Gen Musharraf’s lawyer Akhtar Shah submitted the former army chief’s medical report along with a request to grant his client temporary exemption from appearing in court in the judges’ detention case, but the judge rejected both and upheld his non-bailable arrest warrants, DawnNews reported.

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ATC judge Sohail Ikram maintained that the former military ruler left the country in March but the report presented in the court is of April.

Gen Musharraf's counsel argued that his client can appear before the court provided his doctors allow him and the government provides him security. Upon this, the judge responded that Musharraf has failed to appear in his court for the last one and a half year period.

Islamabad police, in its report regarding the former army chief's non-bailable arrest warrants stated that the warrants could not be executed as Gen Musharraf is in Dubai since March, upon which the Judge ordered Inspector General Islamabad to find Gen Musharraf's whereabouts and produce him in the court on May 20, the next hearing of the case.

It is pertinent to note here that Pervez Musharraf, who is facing a number of cases including Abdul Rasheed Ghazi murder case, Benazir Bhutto murder case and high treason case, left for Dubai on March 18, hours after the interior ministry issued a notification to remove his name from the exit control list (ECL).

In the formal hearing of the case, the judge had said that the former president left country without taking permission from court.

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Judges detention case

The Secretariat police on August 11, 2009, registered the case against Gen Musharraf on the complaint of Advocate Mohammad Aslam Ghumman.

The complainant stated that soon after the imposition of an emergency in the country on November 3, 2007, the then president detained 60 judges of the superior courts in their residences for over five months.

Since the start of the trial in the ATC in 2013, the former military ruler has been given exemptions from personal appearance 42 times.

On September 11, 2015, the ATC dismissed an application seeking a permanent exemption to Gen Musharraf and issued his arrest warrants.