Punjab to challenge LHC orders against arresting Parvez

The Punjab government has decided to challenge the Lahore High Court's verdict restraining police and anti-corruption from arresting former Punjab CM Parvez Elahi.

Sources said an intra-court appeal will be filed in the Lahore High Court on July 17

In the government appeal, it will be requested to fix the same day for the hearing.

The position taken by the government lawyers was that Parvez Elahi was arrested on charges of corruption and the investigations are going on.

The Lahore High Court restrained police and the anti-corruption establishment from arresting the former Punjab chief minister in undisclosed cases.

In the 13-page written order on the petition of Parvez Elahi, the court of Justice Muhammad Amjad Rafique barred authorities from arresting him in connection with the pending enquiries.

According to the verdict, the back-to-back arrests and separate investigations in various cases are against fundamental rights.

Arrest after arrest without proper legal materials and information is a negation of Supreme Court orders, it said adding that confinement with the threat of imprisonment makes clear the purpose of coercing a confession.

Such imprisonment breaks them so badly that they are willing to accept anything to save their health and above all their family from danger, it maintained.

Those who resist injustice rely on the support of family and friends and people in the outside world, the order said, adding that therefore, imprisonment, especially illegal imprisonment, isolates them from the outside world.

The court also granted him protective bail in case number 1150 registered in Ghalib Market police , FIR No. 5/23 of Anti-Corruption in Gujarat, FIR No. 1150/23 of Police Station Ghalib Market, Lahore.

The protective bail is granted for ten days starting from the day of release