PTI President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi has been arrested outside his residence in Lahore, according to his spokesperson Iqbal Chaudhry.

He said in a voice note shared with Dawn.com Elahi was arrested as he was leaving his house.

The spokesperson alleged that authorities had also “misbehaved” with women accompanying Elahi.

Elahi had been evading arrest since a few days before May 9 — following which several PTI members and leaders have been arrested on allegations of their involvement in vandalism — as authorities continued to visit his house for his arrest multiple times.

On May 26, a district court in Lahore had issued a non-bailable arrest warrant for Elahi in a case of embezzlement of development funds.

“The pre-arrest bail of the accused was dismissed due to non-prosecution vide order dated May 25 and he is not appearing before the court and also not joining the investigation. In view of the request of the IO, let non-bailable arrest warrants of accused Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi be issued for June 2, 2023,” the court order read.