Legal Aid committee Incharge of Shia community of Sindh Askari Reza has been shifted at the Central Jail of Karachi. Askari Reza was voluntarily surrendered himself in the Artillery Maidan Police Station Karachi after the crowded press conference along with the Shia leaders and clerics on Wednesday at Karachi Press club in protest against the fake FIR lodged against him at Surjani Town Police station on 25th July of the target killing of outlawed SSP worker Naveed.
Earlier, the police has declined to arrest the Askari Reza, when he had reached at Artillery Maidan Police Station along with the scores of Ulemas and protestors but later after the sit-in protest outside the Sindh Governor House on Wednesday night Police has accepted his arrest at Artillery Maidan Police Station.
Sources said that Police was shifted Askari Reza at Mangopir Police Station on late Wednesday night and presented him for remand at City court but the court has refused to give the remand of Askari Reza and given the verdict of Jail Custody order.
He was shifted at Central Jail Karachi on the barracks of professional criminals despite he is the politically-victimized leader and Incharge of the legal Aid committee of the community.
