Elahi’s wife moves SC for her husband’s release

Prays top court to annul LHC’s Sept 6 decision

ISLAMABAD:

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central President Parvez Elahi’s wife on Saturday filed a petition in the Supreme Court (SC) against the Lahore High Court’s (LHC) decision of disposing of a plea seeking the release of her husband following his rearrest.

In her petition, she made the caretaker Punjab government, Punjab interior secretary and the provincial inspector general of police respondents.

Elahi’s wife prayed the apex court to annul the LHC’s Sept 6 decision. The LHC had disposed of a plea seeking its order for the production and release of the PTI president after terming it infructuous.

Elahi's wife pleaded the top court to release her husband, saying that the LHC did not examine the facts related to his arrest.

The plea also sought the SC’s restraining orders against his possible rearrest in any undisclosed case registered against him.

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She requested the top court to issue orders for Elahi’s production before the court.

Elahi's wife apprised the top court that despite the LHC’s restraining order against his possible arrest, her husband was rearrested under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order by the Islamabad police shortly after being released by the National Accountability Bureau and subsequently, he was put under house arrest in Adiala Jail for the next 15 days.

She stated that her husband was 77 years old and had fought for the betterment of the country throughout his life.

The petition stated that the Anti-Corruption Department had registered a case under the charge of receiving bribe in a road project.

“The Additional Anti-Corruption Department DG raided our house. The behaviour of the police was as if they were conducting an operation against terrorists in the Kacha tribal area of Rahim Yar Khan.”