ISLAMABAD: Amidst rising political tensions in the country, the police have taken into custody the personal secretary of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President and former chief minister Punjab, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi from Gujranwala.
The police detained Chaudhry Iqbal from the district and sessions courts complex. He was immediately transferred to the local CIA headquarters.
Moreover, Parvez Elahi’s fellow leader Khawaja Waqar has also been arrested, local media reported. The PTI central president and former Punjab chief minister is likely to be presented in a Gujranwala court today by the Anti-Corruption Establishment regional headquarters in Gujranwala. He will be produced in the court of a senior civil judge.
Parvez Elahi was re-arrested on Friday night by an anti-corruption team from Lahore immediately after he was released on Lahore court orders and transferred to Gujranwala.
Earlier, the PTI president and former Punjab CM had been arrested from outside his residence – Zahoor Palace – in Lahore on June 1, in an alleged corruption case involving Rs70 million, concerning the misappropriation of development funds designated for Gujrat district. However, he was released by a Lahore court that discharged Elahi from the graft case.
Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Murtaza heard the ACE application on cases registered in Lahore and Gujranwala and declared that if Elahi was not wanted in any other case, then he should be released. As soon as he was released, Elahi was re-arrested in another graft case by the anti-corruption establishment (ACE) that shifted him to its Gujranwala directorate on Friday.
