ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi might be shifted to Lahore after the Punjab’s Anti-Corruption Institution (ACE) obtained his one-day transitory remand in a contemporary case the previous chief minister was booked in.
After an anti-terrorism court docket (ATC) ordered to ship him to jail on judicial remand within the case pertaining to the assault on the Federal Judicial Complicated (FJC), ACE Punjab stepped in searching for the senior politician’s remand in a brand new case filed in Lahore for misusing his energy and place to shuffle provincial paperwork.
In accordance with a primary info report (FIR), Elahi has been booked below part 5/2(d)47 of the Prevention of Corruption Act (PCA) for illicitly misusing his place and energy because the then-chief minister of Punjab and transferring Muhammad Khan Bhatti, an make use of in a particular division of the Punjab Meeting, to a principal secretary.
ATC decide Abual Hasnat Zulqarnain authorized ACE Punjab’s request to subject Elahi’s one-day transitory remand after reserving its verdict within the wake of arguments introduced by the anti-graft division.
“Cannot the chief minister appoint his personal chief secretary? He has the authority to nominate his personal employees,” Elahi’s lawyer Sardar Abdul Razzaq mentioned throughout his arguments, revealing that the case in opposition to the politico was filed a day earlier.
He contested the case was booked after a decrease court docket in Lahore discharged his shopper on Sunday. Elahi, nonetheless, wasn’t launched as a result of non-payment of surety bonds.
The PTI chief’s counsel mentioned that his shopper has been focused as a result of political vengeance since January and argued that he was arrested once more after being discharged from the courtroom.
Earlier, the court docket had ordered Elahi to be despatched to jail below judicial remand throughout the listening to of the FJC assault case within the very institution.
“When will Parvez Elahi’s life be spared?” the decide requested.
The politician’s lawyer mentioned that his shopper was being constantly moved from one metropolis to a different.
Elahi, too, was current within the courtroom himself and appeared on the podium to talk earlier than the decide.
“Yesterday, I used to be taken again to Lahore from Islamabad,” Elahi lamented.
The decide instructed Elahi and his lawyer concerning the non-payment of surety bonds.
“The bail bonds have been to be submitted at this time,” the politician’s lawyer mentioned.
The PTI president mentioned his assembly with the household has not been organized throughout the interval of arrest. “Challenge an order for a gathering with household.”
