Shahjahan Sheikh: Former Trinamool Congress chief suspended for six years (File).
Kolkata:
Suspended Trinamool chief Sheikh Shahjahan – the important thing accused within the Sandeshkhali extortion, land seize, and sexual assault circumstances – was transferred to the custody of the CBI Wednesday night, capping a two-day stand-off between the Bengal authorities and the central company.
On Tuesday the Calcutta High Court had ordered the state at hand over Shahjahan, and all case supplies, to the Central Bureau of Investigation. The state was given until 4.30 pm however refused to conform, citing a last-gasp enchantment on the Supreme Court, which had refused an pressing listening to.
When the CBI staff reached Bengal Police’s HQ in Kolkata, they had been pressured to return empty-handed. They had been instructed Shahjahan would stay in police custody until the Supreme Court’s ruling.
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This afternoon, an irate High Court set a brand new deadline – 4.15 pm. The court docket underlined the seriousness of the state disregarding an order handed by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam, and stated, “Supreme Court has not ordered a stay. So Shahjahan must be handed over to the CBI by 4.15 pm…”
The High Court additionally issued a discover of contempt and requested Bengal Police’s Criminal Investigation Department, which had custody of Sheikh Shahjahan, to file an affidavit inside two weeks.
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In yesterday’s listening to the High Court held the police to be “totally biased” and referred to as for a “fair, honest, and complete investigation” into allegations in opposition to Shahjahan. “There can be no better case than this… which requires to be transferred (and) to be investigated by the CBI,” it noticed.
Sheikh Shahjahan went on the run on January 5, the day a mob of his supporters attacked an Enforcement Directorate staff. Nearly two months later, he was arrested – three days after the state’s stand-off, this time with the High Court – and suspended from the Trinamool for six years.
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The High Court on Tuesday dominated on separate pleas – from the ED and the state authorities – to its earlier order on the organising of a staff of CBI officers and cops. The ED wished the case to be dealt with solely by its central counterpart, whereas the police didn’t need the CBI concerned in any respect.
In a separate improvement, the ED stated it had provisionally connected movable and immovable property price Rs 12.78 crore in reference to the Sheikh Shahjahan case.
The Shahjahan-Sandeshkhali row has turn into a serious flashpoint within the state weeks earlier than the Lok Sabha election. The BJP has accused Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s authorities of protecting its former chief, whereas the Trinamool right now pointed to former nationwide wrestling physique chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, a sitting BJP MP who was accused of sexual assault by girls wrestlers.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi was in Bengal final week and, in his first public touch upon the Sandeshkhali row, accused the Trinamool of shielding its former member.
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