KARACHI: The Opposition leader in Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh has been released from Karachi Central Jail after a court approved his bail plea.
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader was arrested by the Anti-Encroachment Force (AEF) in an encroachment case soon after he was released on bail in a terrorism case.
Sheikh was booked by the Anti-Encroachment Force (AEF) on a charge of illegally occupying 25 acres of state land in Scheme 33. He was arrested in the case from outside the Karachi central prison minutes after he was released on bail in a terrorism case on August 29.
شیر سندھ اپوزیشن لیڈر سندھ حلیم عادل شیخ سینٹرل جیل سے رہا ہوگئے۔۔۔@PTIofficial @HaleemAdil @ayesha_haleem pic.twitter.com/yThDoQsWqL
— Abdul Ghafar Dandhal (@GhafarDandhal) September 8, 2022
Malir court on last Tuesday sent PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh to jail on judicial remand by rejecting the police’s plea for physical remand in land grabbing case.
Haleem Adil Sheikh is accused of encroaching 25 acres of land in Malir. The PTI leader was presented before the court from jail by anti-encroachment officials.
The ACE had arrested Sheikh on July 6 from Lahore, but later, the Lahore High Court (LHC) ruled the detention of the opposition leader in the Sindh Assembly to be “unlawful” and granted him protective bail.
PTI leader Haleem Adil Sheikh also alleged that he was tortured and strangled at a police station.
A video of Sheikh from a hearing had surfaced on Twitter where he was seen alleging that he was tortured and strangled in jail.
