LAHORE: The opposition leader in Sindh Assembly and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Haleem Adil Sheikh has been arrested in the wee hours of Wednesday.
According to sources, Haleem Adil Sheikh has been arrested from Lahore. Sources also informed that the opposition leader in Sindh Assembly was arrested by some officials in plain clothes.
Sources said that Haleem Adil Sheikh has been shifted to some undisclosed location.
Earlier, the Peshawar High Court granted transit bail to leader of the opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh until June 25 in two cases of rioting and violence registered in Karachi during the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s last month Azadi March on Islamabad.
Justice Roohul Amin Khan of a single-member bench accepted two petitions of Mr Sheikh on condition of furnishing two surety bonds of Rs500,000 each.
He directed the petitioner to appear before the relevant Karachi court by June 25.
As the lawyers were on strike, the petitioner appeared the court and said he along with other PTI leaders was named in two ‘politically-motivated’ cases.
He feared that he would be arrested by Karachi police on return from Peshawar.
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Mr Sheikh requested the court to grant him transit/protective bail to enable him to appear before the relevant court in Karachi.
Last month, a case was registered against Mr Sheikh on the charge of grabbing land.
The Azadi March-related cases are mostly registered under different sections of Pakistan Penal Code, including Section 353 (assault to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), Section 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), Section 427 (mischief causing damage to currency), Section 506 (criminal intimidation) Section 147 (punishment for rioting), Section 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed), Section 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public function) and Section 188 (disobedience to order promulgated by public servant).
