LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Parvez Elahi approached Lahore High Court against orders to detain him under 16 MPO after getting bail in different cases against him.
The Punjab government issued orders Sunday to detain the former provincial chief minister under Section 3 of the Maintenance of Public Order, 1960, for 30 days.
The development came after a local court in Lahore had ordered the PTI president’s release on bail in the Federal Investigation Agency’s (FIA) money laundering case against him.
In the plea submitted through Elahi’s lawyer Amir Saeed in the LHC on Monday, the ex-chief minister said his detention order was against the court’s ruling to release him.
“…[I have] no other adequate remedy provided by the law except to invoke the constitutional jurisdiction of this Honourable Court, therefore, the instant petition,” the plea mentioned.
Elahi prayed that the court accept his petition and declare the government’s detention order “unlawful, void, against the law, and of na legal effect”.
He also urged the court to direct the caretaker Punjab government, the home secretary, and the Punjab inspector-general of prisons to take action against SP prisons for district jails.
It may be noted that Elahi was initially arrested on June 1 in a graft case amid a crackdown on PTI in the wake of the May 9 protests.
He was rearrested multiple times after this in different cases, including the two money laundering cases.
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