PESHAWAR: Police on Wednesday arrested NWFP Health Minister Inayatullah and his brother and handed them over to the criminal investigation department of Peshawar after a local court cancelled their pre-arrest bail applications in the murder case of their cousin. “We handed the minister to the criminal investigation department of Peshawar,” a Nowshera police official said on condition of anonymity. Sources told Daily Times that the criminal investigation police in Peshawar did not mention the minister’s arrest in their daily report and claimed to be ignorant of the court proceedings. In a court hearing on Wednesday, Ashfaq Taj, additional sessions judge (ASJ) in Nowshera, denied their applications for bail before arrest. Meanwhile, the director of the NWFP Information Department, Mehdi Hussain, rejected reports of Inayatullah’s arrest. “He is at his house and an application has been filed in the Peshawar High Court for an extension to his bail before arrest,” Hussain told Daily Times. Jamaat-e-Islami Information Secretary Iqbal Khan said the minister has filed a bail application in the Peshawar High Court. Jehanzeb Khan, social security officer and the minister’s cousin, was killed two months ago after his car came under fire. Khan’s son was with him at the time and received critical injuries. The son later lodged a first information report (FIR) in which he accused the health minister and his brother of killing his father. Police sources told Daily Times that the accused were not handed over to the police station where the FIR was lodged.