Apart from being involved in the criminal extortion racket in Gujarat, Sheikh was involved in arms smuggling in Madhya Pradesh, and had murder cases registered against him in Gujarat and Rajasthan.
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Sohrabuddin Sheikh was claimed by the police to be associated with the banned global terrorist organization Lashkar-e-Taiba and the Pakistani intelligence agency Inter-Services Intelligence, and was alleged to have planned to create communal chaos in the state by assassinating "an important political leader".
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Sohrabuddin Sheikh was claimed to have links to fellow underworld criminals Sharifkhan Pathan, Abdul Latif, Rasool Parti and Brajesh Singh, who were all members and associates of India's largest organized crime network and underworld mafia operated by Dawood Ibrahim.
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In November 2015 Sohrabuddin Sheikh's brother petitioned the Bombay High Court with a challenge Shah's discharge.
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On November 23,2005, Sohrabuddin Sheikh was traveling on a public bus with his wife, Kauser Bi, from Hyderabad to Sangli, Maharashtra.
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Three days later, Sohrabuddin Sheikh was killed in an encounter on a highway at Vishala Circle near Ahmedabad.
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Sohrabuddin Sheikh then broke the story in November 2006, in the leading Gujarati newspaper, Divya Bhaskar, and gave details of the encounter.
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Sohrabuddin Sheikh gathered evidence that implicated the role of several police officers in the encounter.
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Sohrabuddin Sheikh was reinstated in the same position and asked to head the case.
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