Shehbaz arrested outside LHC

LAHORE: Former Punjab chief minister Shehbaz Sharif has been arrested from outside the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Monday.

According to news reports, the PML-N president was taken into custody after his interim bail was rejected by the LHC and NAB officials took him into custody from the court premises.

The LHC rejected the bail petition filed by the PML-N president in the asset beyond means and money-laundering case.

A large number of PML-N workers and women who were gathered outside the court chanted slogans against the PTI government.

The former chief minister of Punjab had earlier reached the LHC for a hearing on his interim bail petition in the money-laundering case filed by the NAB. A two-member bench of the LHC presided over the hearing, while lawyers representing the former Punjab chief minister presented their arguments after a three-day hiatus.