Senior Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and Sindh Assembly Opposition leader Haleem Adil Sheikh has been released from Karachi jail on Saturday (today).
The development comes as Sindh High Court (SHC) had approved Haleem Adil Sheikh’s bail plea in two cases. The court had approved Sheikh’s release directing him to submit two surety bonds of Rs 0.2 million each.
It is to be noted that Haleem Adil Sheikh was admitted in Jinnah Hospital over health issues.
بہت بہت شکریہ! انشااللّہ جلد سندھ سے جھوٹوں کے ٹولے کا خاتمہ ہو گا! https://t.co/VLu6p1r8Lk
— Haleem Adil Sheikh (@HaleemAdil) March 27, 2021
Expressing his views Haleem Adil Sheikh said that four of his associates and party workers are still incarcerated and he will be meeting them to express solidarity.
It is pertinent to know that Haleem Adil Sheikh was arrested on February 16th over accusations of interfering in an anti-encroachment operation in Karachi’s Memon Goth and bringing weapons to a polling station during the Malir by-elections.
While in detention, the senior PTI leader has accused PPP government of torture and political victimization. A four-feet long snake was kept in his cell, and more than 50 men were sent to beat him, he had claimed.
