The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday ordered the federal government to remove PTI leader Parvez Elahi’s name from the Passport Control List (PCL) along with the names of his son Rasikh Elahi and daughter-in-law Zara Elahi.
Justice Shams Mehmood Mirza pronounced the verdict on the petitions.
According to the petitioners, the names of the Elahi family members were listed on the PCL “illegally”.
During the hearing, counsel for the federal government opposed the request to remove the names from the PCL.
In May, the LHC granted bail to Parvez and ordered his release in a case related to alleged illegal appointments in the Punjab Assembly during his tenure as chief minister.
The court order, a copy of which is available on Dawn.com, said the case against Elahi required further investigation into his guilt and thus his bail application was allowed with bail set at Rs 500,000 each with two sureties of similar amount. .
Elahi was initially arrested in the Punjab Assembly recruitment case on June 3 last year. The case involved the illegal recruitment of 12 grade 17 officers to the provincial assembly, with Elahi accused of having the results of the testing service altered to select candidates of his choice.
He was then arrested on September 18 in the alleged illegal appointment of Muhammad Khan Bhatti, after which he was remanded by a court in Lahore.
In October, the Lahore District and Sessions Court allowed the police to take Elahi into physical custody for two days. A few days later, the Punjab Anti-Corruption Bureau informed the court that it had allegedly recovered Rs 4.1 million from the former CM’s house in the case.
The next month, a court magistrate released Bhatti in the case, but he remained in jail as he was in judicial custody in other corruption cases. Later that month, Elahi was denied bail in the case.
