Islamabad: Former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan on Friday appeared before a court to personally apologise to Additional District and Sessions Judge Zeba Chaudhry, the judge he had allegedly threatened at a public rally.

Khan was booked in a case for threatening judicial magistrate Chaudhry and police officers at a rally in F-9 Park on August 20.

The main aim was to prevent the police officers and judiciary from carrying out their legal obligations, stated the FIR. The FIR was registered on the complaint of Magistrate Ali Javed at Islamabad’s Margalla Police Station under Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act, reports Geo News.

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chief, today, with his lawyers appeared in Judge Chaudhry’s court. However, the court reader and stenographer Farooq told the PTI chief that the judicial magistrate was on leave.

“I have come to apologise to judicial magistrate Zeba Chaudhry,” he could be heard saying to the court reader in a video shared by PTI on Twitter.

“You have to tell Madam Zeba Chaudhry that Imran Khan had visited and wanted to apologise if his words hurt her sentiments,” he said.