Former Punjab chief minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Central President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was taken to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) after his health deteriorated in prison.

Doctors at the PIC conducted Elahi’s medical tests on complaints of chest pain. The reports of his electrocardiogram (ECG) and echocardiogram are awaited.

He has been shifted back to prison, according to reports.

The former chief minister was sent to prison on June 4 for a 14-day judicial remand by a judicial magistrate in Lahore after he was arrested by the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) in a case pertaining to bribery and illegal recruitments.

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The court had denied ACE’s request for physical remand.

This was his third arrest in two days on Saturday after two separate courts dismissed charges against him.

Elahi is among the remaining members of the PTI leadership standing with the party. Most of the senior party leaders, including Fawad Chaudhry, Usman Buzdar, Maleeka Bokhari and Shireen Mazari, have called it quits, with some of them announcing a break from politics altogether.