

He was later shifted to the Anti-Encroachment police station and shown arrested in another land-grab case.Īccording to the fresh first information report, a copy of which is available with Dawn, a former mukhtiarkar (revenue official) had allegedly illegally allotted 25 acres of state land to Sheikh and 10 others for a cooperative housing society in Scheme-33, where the nominated persons had set up a cattle pen and warehouses. AEF officials, who were apparently waiting for him outside the prison, whisked him away. His dramatic arrest had taken place as soon as he came out of the Karachi central prison. “No torture at all,” he told .Ī day ago, Sheikh was taken into custody by the AEF minutes after he was released on bail by prison authorities in a terrorism case. Meanwhile, the senior superintendent of the Anti-Encroachment Force, Malik Murtaza, denied torture against the opposition leader in the custody.
