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 serious 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 had 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 look 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 beneath 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 potential ration distribution rip-off wherein a former state minister has been detained, they had been attacked by a crowd estimated to be roughly a thousand individuals.
The state police detained Sheikh on February 29, someday 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 certain the reality will floor on the proper time. Let there be a correct investigation within the matter, Yasmin mentioned. Nonetheless, she refused to provide 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 beneath the supervision of CID-West Bengal.