{"id":18641,"date":"2023-08-15T18:46:40","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T13:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=18641"},"modified":"2023-08-15T18:46:40","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T13:46:40","slug":"parvez-elahi-remanded-into-nabs-custody-till-august-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/parvez-elahi-remanded-into-nabs-custody-till-august-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Parvez Elahi remanded into NAB’s custody till August 21"},"content":{"rendered":"

An accountability court in Lahore Tuesday handed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi over to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) till August 21 in a case of receiving bribes from development project contracts.<\/p>\n

The former Punjab chief minister \u2014 who has been detained back-to-back \u2014 was arrested yet again by NAB officials shortly after being released from Rawalpindi\u2019s Adiala jail on Monday night.<\/p>\n

However, as soon as the PTI president walked free, the NAB officials apprehended him and presented him before Judicial Magistrate Khalid Hayat to seek his transitory remand.<\/p>\n

Today the NAB officials, whose request for the transitory remand was accepted last night, presented Elahi before a Lahore court.<\/p>\n

The accountability court judge, Zubair Shehzad Kiyani, presided over the hearing in Lahore.<\/p>\n

During the hearing, Special Prosecutor Waris Janjua sought Elahi’s 14-day physical remand on NAB’s behalf. He informed the court that a supplementary grant of Rs72 billion was issued for specific sectors of Gujrat under Elahi as Punjab CM.<\/p>\n

Others facing charges in the same case have been remanded, he added.<\/p>\n

At this, the court approved a seven-day physical remand \u2014 half as requested by the prosecution \u2014 of Elahi, who sought permission to meet his wife and son.<\/p>\n

However, the court directed NAB to submit a response to the PTI president’s plea.<\/p>\n

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Elahi was initially arrested on June 1 from outside his residence in an Rs70 million graft case related to the embezzlement of development funds allocated for the Gujrat district.<\/p>\n

Since then, the former Punjab chief minister has been behind bars on various charges. During a span of around two and half months, the PTI leader was released multiple times on the courts\u2019 orders but was re-arrested immediately every time.<\/p>\n

The PTI president was taken into custody during a crackdown launched against the party\u2019s leadership following the May 9 riots.<\/p>\n

The riots were triggered almost across the country after the PTI chairman\u2019s arrest in the \u00a3190 million Al-Qadir Trust case on May 9 which led to the deaths of at least eight people and injured several others, prompting the authorities to arrest thousands of PTI workers.<\/p>\n

During the protests, the miscreants attacked the civil and military installations including \u2014 Corps Commander’s House (Jinnah House) in Lahore Cantt and the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.<\/p>\n

The military called May 9 “Black Day” and decided to try the protesters under the Army Act. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif termed May 9 as the \u201cdarkest day in the [country\u2019s] history\u201d and announced to try the suspects in the military courts.<\/p>\n

The National Security Committee had also endorsed the decision of the top brass to act against rioters under the Army Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An accountability court in Lahore Tuesday handed Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Parvez Elahi over to the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) till August 21 in a case of receiving bribes from development project contracts. The former Punjab chief minister \u2014 who has been detained back-to-back \u2014 was arrested yet again by NAB officials shortly after […]<\/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],"tags":[717,708,5312,177,194],"class_list":["post-18641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-gujrat","tag-national-accountability-bureau","tag-parvez-elahi","tag-nab","tag-pti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18641","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=18641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18641\/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=18641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}