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Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, a former chief minister of Punjab and the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), was apprehended once more on Tuesday at the entrance to the Police Lines Area in Islamabad.
Parvez Elahi rearrested: Elahi was released earlier in the day when the Islamabad High Court (IHC) lifted the Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order (MPO) detention order that had been placed against him.
According to sources, the high court’s orders caused the former CM of Punjab to be released. He was travelling home in the car of his attorney Advocate Abdul Razzaq when counterterrorism department (CTD) agents wearing tactical gear stopped them at the Police Lines’ main entrance and detained him.
Parvez Elahi was detained by Police Station CTD in Case No. 3/23, according to an announcement made by the Islamabad Police on X (previously Twitter).
“Political Turmoil: Detention and Release of Punjab’s Former Chief Minister”
On September 1, the day after the Lahore High Court (LHC) ordered the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) to free the former chief minister of Punjab, the president of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) was once again detained.
Elahi was the subject of a corruption case brought by the NAB, and Justice Amjad Rafiq presided over the hearing. He issued a release order for Elahi, preventing the veteran politician from being detained.
Elahi was later detained by Islamabad police on his way home from Canal Road in Lahore.
His son Moonis Elahi referred to the arrest as a “abduction” and claimed it was against the high court’s directives.
The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) in Gujranwala detained the former chief minister of Punjab in June on charges that he accepted Rs 15 million in bribes while serving as the provincial assembly’s speaker to fill grade-17 positions without regard to qualifications.
He was released from custody the very following day, only to be detained by ACE in connection with a related case that had been filed in its Gujranwala region.
Elahi was then imprisoned under the MPO for 30 days starting on July 17.
He was held after a 30-day detention order was issued by the Lahore deputy commissioner in response to a written request from the Lahore police.
Elahi, according to the police, “has the potential to disturb public peace and tranquilly and to illegally provoke people for taking the law into their own hands.”