PTI President Parvez Elahi will be presented before a Lahore district court today (Sunday) — after he was re-arrested for the second time in two days — in a case pertaining to “illegal recruitments” in the Punjab Assembly.
According to an Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) spokesperson, Elahi would be produced before a judicial magistrate for physical remand.
“We have re-arrested Mr Elahi in a case related to the recruitments of 12 Grade-17 officers in the Punjab Assembly against merit. He got changed the results of these candidates belonging to Gujrat and Mandi Bahauddin. We have collected evidence and also arrested Secretary Punjab Assembly Rai Mumtaz Hussain in this regard,” he Republicpolicy.
Ahead of today’s hearing, Elahi’s lawyer Rana Intizar told republic policy that he would continue to fight the PTI president’s case despite threats.
