{"id":65263,"date":"2024-02-28T03:11:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/court-summons-parvez-elahi-for-indictment-the-express-tribune\/"},"modified":"2024-02-28T03:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T03:11:06","slug":"court-summons-parvez-elahi-for-indictment-the-express-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/court-summons-parvez-elahi-for-indictment-the-express-tribune\/","title":{"rendered":"Court summons Parvez Elahi for indictment | The Express Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<strong class=\"location-names\"><br \/>\nLAHORE:<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">An anti-corruption court on Monday adjourned the hearing of the Punjab Assembly illegal appointments case against former chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and others till March 6.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The court summoned Parvez Elahi and other accused on the next date of hearing for indictment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Anti-Corruption Court Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta heard the case, wherein the jail officials produced Muhammad Khan Bhatti. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">Several co-accused also appeared and marked their attendance during the proceedings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The jail officials submitted a medical certificate and stated that Chaudhry Parvez Elahi could not be produced as he was sick.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">At this, the court adjourned further proceedings till March 6 and summoned all accused for indictment on the next date of hearing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The court also dismissed applications filed by the accused for provision of clear copies of the challan and related documents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">It held that the copies had already been provided to the accused and if they needed more documents then those would also be provided, but the proceedings should not be delayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) had registered the case, accusing Parvez Elahi of unlawful appointments and kickbacks. Allegedly, qualified candidates were denied appointment, while those who had not appeared in exams were appointed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">\u00a0The Punjab Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) claimed that, as the then chief minister, Elahi had misused his authority, influencing appointments allegedly after receiving bribe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:black\">The court had twice delayed the indictment of the accused during the previous hearings.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"background-color:white\">Published in The Express Tribune, February 27<sup>th<\/sup>, 2024.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: An anti-corruption court on Monday adjourned the hearing of the Punjab Assembly illegal appointments case against former chief minister Chaudhry Parvez Elahi and others till March 6. The court summoned Parvez Elahi and other accused on the next date of hearing for indictment. Anti-Corruption Court Judge Arshad Hussain Bhutta heard the case, wherein the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.tribune.com.pk\/media\/images\/Elahi1694863289-0\/Elahi1694863289-0.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-faisalabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}