LAHORE: The accountability court of Lahore has extended the physical remand of former Punjab chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi till September 2.
Earlier, officials of the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) produced Elahi before Accountability Court Judge Zubair Shahzad Kiyani on the expiry of his physical remand.
Elahi had also challenged his arrest by the NAB in the Lahore High Court. The Punjab IGP, NAB, FIA, and others have participated in the petition.
The petition maintains that the accountability watchdog illegally upgraded the inquiry to an investigation without giving a call-up notice or allowing him to submit a statement.
It said the NAB illegally issued an arrest warrant and executed it.
The petition requests the Lahore High Court to declare the arrest by the NAB null and void.
The court should order to stop Parvez Elahi’s arrest in undisclosed cases.
During the proceedings in a NAB case of alleged corruption in development schemes against the former CM, lawyer Amjad Pervaiz said if Moonis Elahi committed a wrongful act, his father could not be held responsible for it.
Moonis Elahi is independent and self-reliant in his work. Higher court verdicts also say the same, he told the accountability court.
