By Press Trust of India: The President of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf social gathering Parvez Elahi was on Friday arrested as soon as extra minutes after a judicial Justice of the Peace proper right here ordered his launch in an embezzlement case.
Elahi, an in depth aide to former prime minister Khan, was a day earlier arrested outside his residence in Punjab province inside the Rs 70 million corruption case related to the embezzlement of enchancment funds allotted for the Gujrat district.
The former chief minister of Punjab province was re-arrested by officers of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) Punjab in a corruption case registered in opposition to him in Gujranwala, Geo News reported.
Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Murtaza Virk issued Elahi’s launch order whereas asserting the choice he had reserved on a plea looking for the PTI chief’s bodily remand.
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“Parvez Elahi should be released if he is not wanted in any other case,” the choice talked about. Murtaza had reserved the choice after listening to the earlier Punjab chief minister’s case, the place ACE Punjab requested the court docket docket for his 14-day bodily remand.
Elahi’s counsel Advocate Rana Intizar educated the court docket docket that every one paperwork related to the duties had been accessible.
“Anti-corruption watchdog is introducing its own law under which the judge hearing the cases will be of their choice,” the council talked about, together with that on January 17 a price value Rs 360 million was made when Naqvi was the chief minister.
Earlier on Friday, the 77-year-old chief claimed innocence and talked about that he was a “supporter” of the Pakistan Army, urging social gathering supporters to stay strong.
Speaking to reporters sooner than his look inside the court docket docket, Elahi talked about: “I am innocent and a supporter of the Pakistan Army.”
While chatting with Geo News, Elahi with out naming anybody took a jibe on the previous social gathering leaders who launched their option to half strategies with PTI chief Imran Khan, saying that he obtained’t preserve any press conference.
Elahi recalled that he did not make any political case in opposition to anyone and blamed Punjab chief minister Mohsin Naqvi for his current predicament. “Naqvi has done injustice to me.”
CASES AGAINST PARVEZ ELAHI
Two circumstances have been registered in Gujranwala in opposition to the earlier Punjab chief minister on the prices of receiving kickbacks in awarding contracts whereas one case has been lodged in Lahore in opposition to Elahi.
Earlier, a selected select of the anti-corruption court docket docket proper right here issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Elahi, ordering authorities to provide him by June 2. Two arrest warrants have been issued for the PTI chief. The first one was issued on May 25 after the cancellation of bail whereas the second on May 26.
In April, the ACE Gujranwala filed a case in opposition to the PTI president citing a report based totally on sources, by means of which the earlier Punjab chief minister was accused of taking a Rs 2 billion bribe for the contract of a enchancment scheme.
In one different case, an FIR was registered in opposition to Elahi for taking a bribe of Rs 120 million from a worldwide organisation — a Turkish agency.
The anti-corruption court docket docket select moreover declared Elahi’s medical certificates as bogus which claimed that he had been experiencing chest ache. The former Punjab chief minister’s arrest comes amidst the extremely efficient establishment’s efforts to interrupt Khan’s PTI.
QUITTING OF PTI LEADERS
Currently, over 100 PTI leaders and former lawmakers have cease Khan’s social gathering following May 9 assaults on military installations inside the nation. Khan, 70, who’s going by means of larger than 100 circumstances ranging from corruption to terrorism, talked about he sympathises with all people who was pressured to go away the social gathering.
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Elahi, who was an in depth aide to military dictator General Pervez Musharraf, was appointed as a result of the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) social gathering in March this yr after quitting his former social gathering – the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q).
On May 9, violent protests erupted after the arrest of Khan, Chairman of PTI, by paramilitary Rangers in Islamabad. His social gathering workers vandalised over 20 military installations and authorities buildings, along with the Lahore Corps Commander House, Mianwali airbase and the ISI establishing in Faisalabad.
The Army headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi was moreover attacked by the mob for the first time. Khan was later launched on bail.
The violence elicited a strong response from the federal authorities and armed forces with vows of taking movement in opposition to the culprits, leading to an ongoing crackdown in opposition to those involved.
Law enforcement companies have arrested over 10,000 workers of Khan’s Pakistan social gathering all through Pakistan, 4,000 of them from Punjab province.
Khan, a cricketer-turned-politician, was ousted from vitality in April closing yr after shedding a no-confidence vote in his administration, which he alleged was part of a US-led conspiracy specializing in him resulting from his neutral worldwide protection decisions on Russia, China and Afghanistan.
