Earlier, Sheikh and his five party leaders, among others, were booked for instigating violence, rioting, attempt to murder and terrorism during the by-election on February 16 and for disrupting an anti-encroachment drive against his farmhouse in the city's Solangi Goth area on February 6.
The investigating officer (IO) who filed a report to the administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts (ATC), nominated Sheikh, Ramzan, Mehmood, Ghulam Mustafa Hafeez, Abdul Haseeb, Sheikh Sameer and Ghulam Mustafa as accused in the case of violence during the by-elections.