A Special Central Court of Lahore has granted bail to former Punjab chief minister Parvaiz Elahi in the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) money laundering case.
The development came after the former Punjab chief minister had filed a plea against his arrest in the case. The court approved Elahi’s bail against surety bonds worth Rs10,000.
During the hearing, the court observed that the FIA had failed to submit case records despite being directed to do so.
A special court in Lahore had earlier granted post-arrest bail to the PTI leader in the same case after the investigative agency had detained him and requested physical remand.
The court had denied the FIA’s request and instead sent the former Punjab chief minister to jail on 14-day judicial remand.
Although the court had accepted Elahi’s bail plea against a surety bond of Rs10,000 and issued an order for his release from District Camp Jail, it was speculated that the PTI stalwart would be arrested again as a heavy contingent of police had been deployed outside the prison premises.
On June 21, the Lahore district and sessions court had rejected the FIA’s plea for physical remand of the already arrested Elahi in the alleged money laundering case and granted only judicial remand.
The FIA team took former chief minister Elahi, who is also president of the PTI, to the court and pleaded for his physical remand.
