kickbacks in road projects
LAHORE
The anti-corruption department on Tuesday filed a review petition against the magistrate’s decision not to grant physical remand of former Punjab chief minister and PTI President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi in a corruption case. Making Pervaiz a respondent in the petition, the department argued that there were clear-cut proofs of Pervaiz receiving kickbacks in road projects and transgressing his powers. “Therefore, in order to complete interrogation in the case, physical remand of the suspect is a legal requirement,” the petitioner said.
, adding, “It is prayed to the court to declare magistrate’s order of sending the former chief minister to jail on physical remand null and void.”
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Pervez Elahi was sent on 14-day judicial remand by a Lahore district court a day before yesterday on Sunday. The decision came a couple of days after he was arrested from outside his residence in a case pertaining to illegal recruitment in the Punjab Assembly.
The court, however, rejected the demand of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) which had sought a 14-day physical remand of Elahi. According to ACE, during his tenure, Elahi recruited 12 Grade-17 officers in the Punjab Assembly against merit.
