LAHORE: The Punjab Home Department has given B Class to former provincial chief minister and PTI President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi, says a Home Department notification issued today.
 
A few days ago, Elahi'e wife claimed her husband's health was deteriorated. She said she went to meet him in the hospital but the Punjab police did not let her to meet her husband.
 
She alleged that the manner in which Elahi was treated in the jail was very painful. PTI President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was arrested outside his residence in Lahore on June 1 in connection with a corruption case. TV footage showed Elahi being forcefully taken away on a road during the arrest, which came after multiple futile raids at his house.
 
On June 4, an anti-corruption court in Lahore rejected the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment's (ACE) plea seeking physical remand of Elahi in the Punjab Assembly illegal recruitments case. The court sent the former Punjab chief minister to jail on a 14-day judicial remand.
 
The illegal recruitments case against Parvez Elahi alleges that he recruited 12 Grade-17 officers in the Punjab Assembly against merit. It is claimed that he manipulated the results of the candidates from Gujrat and Mandi Bahauddin. The Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) has collected evidence to support these allegations and has already arrested Secretary Punjab Assembly Rai Mumtaz Hussain in connection with the case.

Published in The Daily National Courier, June, 19 2023

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