Former PTI Leader of the Opposition in the last Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Sheikh was arrested by the police from outside the Sindh High Court on Wednesday, reported 24NewsHD TV channel.
Haleem Adil Sheikh who surfaced after May 9 vandalism arrived in the SHC to seek bail.
The PTI leader blasted his arrest by police as “illegal”, saying he has bails in all the cases.
Earlier in the day, Haleem Adil Sheikh who has been nominated in the May 9 riots case submitted an application to the Sindh High Court challenging his non-bailable arrest warrants issued by an anti-terrorism court in Hyderabad in the May 9 mayhem case.
Sheikh said that he got a protective bail from the Peshawar High Court. He further said that the Sindh High Court too had barred the authorities from arresting him in any case.
He requested the SHC to suspend the non-bailable arrest warrants issued by a Hyderabad ATC.
He again pleaded with the court to stop law authorities from arresting him in any case.
The court suspended the arrest warrants directing authorities not to arrest him.
Reporters Nauman Gill and Bilal Ahmad