PTI President Parvez Elahi Arrested Again Court Accepts Elahi’s NAB Transit Remand PTI President was initially arrested on June 1.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) president Pervez Elahi was re-arrested on Monday by National Accountability Bureau (NAB) officials soon after his release from Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.
Elahi was initially arrested on June 1 in a Rs 70 million corruption case related to embezzlement of development funds earmarked for Gujarat district from outside his residence.
Since then, the former Chief Minister of Punjab has been put behind bars on various charges. Over a period of about two and a half months, the PTI leader was released several times on the orders of the courts, but each time he was promptly re-arrested.
The PTI president was detained during the crackdown launched against the party leadership after the May 9 riots.
Riots erupted almost across the country after the arrest of the PTI chairman in the £190 million Al-Qadir Trust case on May 9, killing at least eight people and injuring scores, with authorities arresting thousands of TI workers. did it. Workers
The Army has declared May 9 as “Black Day” and decided to try the protesters under the Army Act. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif called May 9 the “darkest day in [the country’s] history” and announced that the accused would be tried in military courts..
Elahi was released on completion of MPO detention.
Sources familiar with the matter have revealed that the former Chief Minister of Punjab was released today by the jail authorities after the expiry of his detention period.
On July 16, the Punjab government issued orders to detain former Chief Minister Elahi for 30 days under 3 MPO. The notification stated that this decision has been taken after the recommendations of District Intelligence Committee of Lahore.
As soon as the PTI president came out, the NAB officials arrested him and shifted him to the judicial complex in Rawalpindi.
Later, NAB officials produced him before Judicial Magistrate Khalid Hayat and sought his interim remand. After hearing the arguments of the parties, the local court accepted Elahi’s NAB transit remand.
The NAB team will present Elahi in the concerned court of Lahore tomorrow.
