Police complaint claims raiding team ‘attacked with petrol, stones and batons’
LAHORE
Punjab police on Saturday booked the former chief minister of Punjab and a key ally of Imran Khan, Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, on terror charges following a late-night raid at his residence.
The case has been registered against 50 individuals including the former chief minister in Lahore’s Ghalib Market police station.
The FIR invokes Section 7 of Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 and has 13 other charges included pertaining to attempted murder, rioting and assault on government officials.
According to the FIR, filed on an anti-corruption officer’s complaint, the raiding team was attacked with petrol bombs, stones and batons. The complaint added that Elahi assisted in escaping arrest during the raid.
The registration of the terrorism case against Elahi comes just hours after a team of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE), Punjab, and the Lahore police conducted a raid to arrest the PTI ally.
The raiding teams remained on the premises of the former CM’s residence for more than three hours during which they took around nine people into custody, but were unable to find Elahi.
The ACE team, led by Additional Director Waqas Hassan, along with heavy contingents of the Anti-Riot Force (ARF), raided the residence of the former Punjab chief minister in a case reportedly registered at the ACE Gujranwala.
The raid at Elahi’s residence came hours after the ACE arrested a close friend of Parvez Elahi’s son, Moonis. Also, the provincial anti-graft body booked the former chairperson of Lahore Waste Management Company (LWMC) over corruption charges.
