RAWALPINDI: A court of civil judge on Monday extended the physical remand of Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Chaudhry Tanvir Khan for two more days.

Mr Khan was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Establishment Punjab in connection with a corruption case.

He had been remanded in police custody for seven days by the court of a senior civil judge on March 14.

The PML-N leader, in a video talk which went viral on social media, alleged that the senior officials and investigating officers of ACE were demanding money from him to provide him relief.

On the last hearing, the civil judge had turned down the request of the accused in which he wanted the court to absolve him of corruption charges.

The court, however, directed the investigating officer to take the PML-N leader to Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology (RIC) for necessary treatment as he was a heart patient.

Mr Khan was shifted to RIC under strict security where a doctors’ board suggested an angiography test. He had been in the RIC since then and was produced in the court on Monday.

On the court directive, he was brought to the RIC on Monday in an armoured police van with chest pain, where senior medical staff conducted blood tests and Electrocardiogram (ECG).

According to sources Mr Khan was not willing to go through an angiography test at the RIC as he wanted to consult his own doctor about the procedure.

Chaudhry Tanvir Khan had been abroad due to illness and had come to Pakistan to attend his son’s wedding.

He was arrested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) at the Jinnah Terminal in Karachi when he was trying to leave the country on March 11. His name had been placed on the watch list in connection with a corruption case registered by the ACE Punjab.

He was brought from Karachi by the ACE team headed by Zulfiqar Bazid, and shifted to Rawalpindi Cantt police station lock-up.

Published in Dawn, March 22nd, 2022

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