On a request from the central company, a courtroom in Basirhat, West Bengal, on Sunday prolonged the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody of Shahjahan Sheikh, a significant accused in a mob assault on ED officers in Sandeshkhali, by an extra 4 days.
Sheikh was taken into jail by the Central Bureau of probe on March 6, and the probe was transferred to them following a Calcutta Excessive Courtroom order.
When Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers went to go looking the now-suspended Trinamool Congress chief’s Sandeshkhali property, they have been attacked.
On the central company’s request, the choose of the Basirhat courtroom within the North 24 Parganas district prolonged Sheikh’s custody to the CBI for an extra 4 days.
The courtroom ordered Sheikh to seem earlier than it as soon as extra on March 14.
Sheikh was introduced earlier than the Basirhat courtroom, which is round 70 kilometers from Kolkata, the place he’s being held underneath strict safety by the CBI.
When ED officers went to examine Sheikh’s Sandeshkhali property on January 5 as a a part of their investigation right into a attainable ration distribution rip-off during which a former state minister has been detained, they have been attacked by a crowd estimated to be roughly a thousand folks.
The state police detained Sheikh on February 29, sooner or later after the excessive courtroom granted permission for the CBI, ED, or West Bengal police to make an arrest of him.
In the meantime, Shahjahan’s daughter Shabana Yasmin, who was current within the courtroom, mentioned her father is harmless.
Speaking to media, Shabana mentioned, her father is harmless. He has been implicated. She is bound the reality will floor on the proper time. Let there be a correct investigation within the matter, Yasmin mentioned. Nevertheless, she refused to offer a solution when requested who had implicated her father.
Shahjahan’s lawyer didn’t make any bail requests on his consumer’s behalf.
Following his arrest on February 28, Shahjahan was remanded to 10 days of police jail by the Basirhat Sub-divisional Courtroom the next day.
After that, he was positioned underneath the supervision of CID-West Bengal.