Shujaat extends olive branch to incarcerated Elahi
Pakistan
Shujaat extends olive branch to incarcerated Elahi
LAHORE (Web Desk) - PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain invited on Monday PTI president Parvez Elahi to return to the PML-Q.
Mr Hussain went to jail to meet his cousin months after the latter bade goodbye to the PML-Q and joined the PTI.
Shujaat visited the Camp Jail to see Mr Elahi and reportedly held an hour-long meeting. Federal minister Chaudhry Saalik Hussain also accompanied the PML-Q chief.
Mr Hussain invited Mr Elahi to rejoin the PML-Q, however, the latter refused to quit the PTI, sources disclosed. After the meeting, they said, Mr Elahi’s son Moonis tweeted that the jail authorities disallowed his mother and the lawyers to see his father in prison.
The prisons inspector general himself took Mr Hussain and his son to meet Mr Elahi, he tweeted, adding that now they would say that a meeting with family members had been arranged this week.
— Moonis Elahi (@MoonisElahi6) June 19, 2023
Earlier, an anti-corruption court reserved a verdict in Mr Elahi’s bail plea in illegal recruitment case.
Judge Ali Raza heard the plea and reserved the verdict. The court would pronounce the verdict on Tuesday.
The court had, earlier, adjourned the hearing on the plea when the prosecution said it had challenged the decision to send Elahi to jail on judicial remand before a sessions court.
When the hearing resumed, the judge asked the parties whether the matter had been resolved.
Elahi's lawyer Rana Intezar informed the judge that he had argued his case before the session's judge.
Judge Raza asked the investigating officer about the record of the case and he replied that it had been submitted in another case. On it, the judge showed his displeasre and said that he would order registration of a case against the investigating officer.
He asked the prosecution to submit a written reply about the record. On it, the prosecution requested the court for adjournmnet and the judge granted his request.
The judge, earlier, asked Rana Intezar to contest the prosecution’s plea, to which his lawyer said he was not provided any record. On it the judge summoned the parties again.
It may be recalled that Judicial Magistrate Ghulam Murtaza Virk on June 4 rejected the Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) application seeking 14-day physical remand of the former chief minister.
According to an ACE spokesperson, Elahi made 12 illegal recruitments in Punjab Assembly on grade 17 positions. The candidates were recruited by tampering with the records and through fake testing services, he said.
The investigation by the ACE proved that fake recruitments were made in the Punjab Assembly, adding that the watchdog has also arrested Secretary Rai Mumtaz in connection with this case on the basis of evidence.
