Sandeshkhali news: CBI registers 3 cases against suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh for attacking ED officers
Shahjahan Sheikh and others for allegedly attacking Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers during searches at Shahjahan Sheikh’s premises in January 2024. Meanwhile, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in West Bengal, along with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government has refused to handover Shahjahan Sheikh to the CBI.
The Calcutta High Court had on Tuesday ordered the transfer of investigation to the CBI into a mob attack on ED officials when they went to search the premises of Sheikh in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district on January 5 in connection with a ration scam probe. The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday granted leave to the ED to file a contempt petition against the West Bengal government over the state police not handing over custody of suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh to the CBI, despite an order to that effect.
The West Bengal government on Wednesday sought urgent listing of its plea in the Supreme Court challenging the high court's order to transfer to the CBI the probe into the attack on ED officials. Sleuths of the CBI reportedly waited for over two hours at the CID headquarters in Bhavani Bhawan for Shahjahan Sheikh's custody, but returned empty-handed, after the state agency said the West Bengal government had moved the Supreme Court on the matter on Tuesday evening.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the “storm of Sandeshkhali" will reach every part of West Bengal, asserting that 'Nari Shakti' (woman power) will play a pivotal role in decimating the ruling TMC in the state. “TMC leaders are committing atrocities against sisters and daughters of poor, Dalit and tribal families at various places.
The women of Bengal and the country are angry. This storm of
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