ISLAMABAD: Former Punjab chief minister Parvez Elahi was handed in custody of the Anti-Corruption Establishment (ACE) on two-day physical remand in illegal recruitments case on Thursday.

Judicial Magistrate Imran Abid announced the reserved verdict. The court accepted the ACE petition seeking physical remand of the PTI president.

The Lahore ACE on Wednesday requisitioned an anti-terrorism court (ATC) in Islamabad for transitory remand of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Punjab president.

ATC judge Abul Hasnaat Zulqarnain, while granting one-day transitory remand, gave Parvez Elahi in Lahore ACE custody. Later, ACE personnel took Parvez Elahi from Adiala Jail to Lahore.