{"id":16754,"date":"2023-06-03T22:10:57","date_gmt":"2023-06-03T17:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=16754"},"modified":"2023-06-03T22:10:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-03T17:10:57","slug":"for-second-consecutive-day-parvez-elahi-re-arrested-shortly-after-court-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/for-second-consecutive-day-parvez-elahi-re-arrested-shortly-after-court-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"For second consecutive day, Parvez Elahi re-arrested shortly after court relief"},"content":{"rendered":"

For second consecutive day, Parvez Elahi re-arrested shortly after court relief. For the second consecutive day, the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Saturday once again arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf<\/a> (PTI) President Parvez Elahi shortly after a Gujranwala court discharged him in two graft cases.<\/p>\n

According to the ACE officials, the former Punjab chief minister has been detained for alleged illegal recruitment he did in the Punjab Assembly when he was the speaker.<\/p>\n

This is the second time that the PTI leader has been re-arrested by the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) after a court granted him relief.<\/p>\n

Minutes before the arrest, a local court had discharged the PTI President in the two corruption cases registered against him in Gujranwala\u2019s anti-corruption police station for allegedly taking kickbacks during the construction of roads in Gujrat.<\/p>\n

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A day earlier, the PTI leader was arrested in a similar fashion outside a Lahore court.<\/p>\n

The court had ordered the release of the PTI leader in connection with a case involving Rs70 million in corruption in development funds allocated for the Gujrat district.<\/p>\n

But, minutes later he was re-arrested in a corruption case registered against him in Gujranwala by Punjab ACE.<\/p>\n

After the arrest, the PTI leader was brought to ACE’s regional office in Gujranwala this morning and presented before Judicial Magistrate Muhammad Afzal.<\/p>\n

‘Baseless case’<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moonis Elahi, who is the son of Parvez Elahi, said that his father was discharged in all three cases registered against him in Lahore and Gujranwala.<\/p>\n

“Now they have arrested him in a baseless case of recruitment in the Punjab Assembly,” said Moonis.<\/p>\n

He said that the cases are being registered for victimisation.<\/p>\n

Today’s hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n

The investigation team, during the hearing, told the court that two cases have been registered against Elahi in Gujranwala’s anti-corruption police station.<\/p>\n

“Parvez Elahi has been arrested in two cases,” said the investigation team.<\/p>\n

The team had sought Elahi’s 14-day physical remand for the investigation of cases and recovery of bribed money.<\/p>\n

The court had then reserved its verdict on the plea.<\/p>\n

While announcing the verdict, the court issued the release orders of the PTI leader over “lack of evidence” and rejected the plea for the physical remand.<\/p>\n

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Elahi deprived of medicines<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaking to his lawyer, the former Punjab CM said that he was kept in a police station and was not given his medicines.<\/p>\n

“I took my medicines in the morning with difficulty,” he said, adding that he was not even allowed to use the bathroom.<\/p>\n

Speaking to media persons after the hearing, Elahi said that whatever the court decides will happen.<\/p>\n

“It is a test for the judiciary,” he added.<\/p>\n

The illegal recruitment case<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the details provided by an ACE spokesperson, Elahi made 12 illegal recruitments in Punjab Assembly in grade 17.<\/p>\n

The candidates were recruited in the provincial assembly by altering the records. “The recruitments were made by taking fake testing services for irregularities,” said the spokesperson.<\/p>\n

He said that the investigation by the ACE proved that fake recruitments were made in Punjab Assembly, adding that the anti-corruption has also arrested Secretary Rai Mumtaz Hussain in connection with this case on the basis of evidence.<\/p>\n

“Rai Mumtaz was involved in a fake recruiting process with Parvez Elahi,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For second consecutive day, Parvez Elahi re-arrested shortly after court relief. For the second consecutive day, the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on Saturday once again arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi shortly after a Gujranwala court discharged him in two graft cases. According to the ACE officials, the former Punjab chief minister has been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16755,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2,147],"tags":[850,1420,733,5312,852,194],"class_list":["post-16754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-politics","tag-gujranwala","tag-moonis-elahi","tag-pakistan-tehreek-e-insaf","tag-parvez-elahi","tag-punjab-police","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}