KARACHI: An antiterrorism court reissued on Tuesday nonbailable warrant for the arrest of an accused in four cases.

Shahid Bikik, said to be associated with one of the several criminal gangs operating in Lyari, has been charged in four cases pertaining to attempted murder, police encounter, explosive material and illicit weapons lodged in 2011 at the Gulbahar police station.

The accused was on bail in all the cases. However, he did not turn up on the last few hearings and on previous hearing the court issued non-bailable warrant and directed the police to arrest and produce him in court by Nov 3.

ATC-VH judge Akhlag Hussain Larak again issued warrant against the accused for Nov 21 as the police failed to arrest and him produce in court.

He has also been facing charges in a number of other cases pertaining to murder, extortion, explosive substances and illicit weapons while an ATC had discharged him in March last year in the murder of Bilal Sheikh, the chief security officer of former president Asif Ali Zardari, after the police informed it that he wasfound innocent by a joint investigation team.

Preventive detention The Pakistan Rangers informed on Tuesday the administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts about the 90-day preventive detention of three suspects for questioning.

The paramilitary soldiers with their law officers produced Shahid alias Dumba, Raees Khan and Abid Khan, said to be political workers, before the administrative judge, Justice Naimatullah Phulpoto, and submitted that they were picked up in the Liaquatabad and Nazimabad areas.

They contended that the suspects were placed under threemonth detention under Section 11EEEE of the Anti-terrorism Act, 1997 for an inquiry since there were credible information about their involvement in targeted killings, extortion and other crimes punishable under ATA.

Meanwhile, the legal fraternity observed a `black day` on Tuesday to protest against the imposition of a state of emergency in the country and the promulgation of the Provisional Constitution Order on Nov 3, 2007 by then president Pervez Musharraf, and the resultant ouster of more than 60 judges of the superior judiciary.