A court in Rawalpindi has issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Federal Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah.

A judicial magistrate ordered the authorities to arrest Sanaullah and produced him before the court.

Rawalpindi, located next to Islamabad, falls in the Punjab province where Imran Khan’s PTI is in power under his ally PMLQ’s Pervaiz Elahi.

Police sources in Rawalpindi said that they could act to arrest Sanaullah only after informing the local police.

The warrants have been issued under various chages of foregery and fraud as well as abetment.

The following Sections of the Pakistan Penal Code were added to the case against Sanaullah.

420 Cheating and dishonestly Inducing delivery of property:

Whoever cheats and thereby dishonestly induces the person deceived to deliver any property to any person, or to make, alter or destroy the whole or any part of a valuable security, or anything which is signed or sealed, and which is capable of being converted into a valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment, of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.

467 Forgery of valuable security, will, etc.:

Whoever forges a document which purports to be a valuable security, or a will, or an authority to adopt a son, or which purports to give authority to any person to make or transfer any valuable security, or to receive the principal, interest or dividends thereon, or to receive or deliver any money, movable property, or valuable security, or any document purporting to be as acquaintance or receipt acknowledging the payment of money, or an acquaintance or receipt for the delivery of any movable property or valuable security, shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.

468 Forgery for purpose of cheating:

Whoever commits forgery, intending that, the document forged shall be used for the purpose of cheating, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to seven years, and shaft also be liable to fine.

471 Using as genuine a forged document:

Whoever fraudulently or dishonestly uses as genuine any document which he knows or has reason to believe to be a forged document, shall be punished in the same manner as if he had forged such document.

and

109 Punishment of abetment if the Act abetted committed In consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment

Punjab Home Minister Colonel (retired) Hashim Dogar had been warning Sanaullah of a possible crackdown against PTI activists who plan to storm the federal capital at any time on Imran Khan’s call.

In recent days, a number of leaked audio clips have surfaced unmasking Imran Khan’s efforts to spin a diplomatic cipher to build his political narrative and to ‘buy’ MNAs before a no-trust vote against him as prime minister.

PTI says the last leak which implicated Khan in horse-trading was produced by cutting and pasting different audio clips.