New Delhi:
The Bengal police have attributed the delay in handing over Sheikh Shahjahan to the Central Bureau of Investigation to the state’s attraction within the Supreme Court. The handover was made because the case was not listed for listening to at the moment, they mentioned.
In a press release posted on X, previously Twitter, the police recounted the occasions main as much as the handover, together with the submitting of the attraction and the highest court docket’s response. The court docket had refused to carry an pressing listening to, suggesting that the state method the Registrar who would checklist the case sooner or later.
The CBI, in the meantime had filed a particular petition earlier than the High Court, which held the state officers in contempt, the police mentioned.
In view of the pending petition earlier than the Supreme Court, “the state government in due deference to the majesty of the High Court and the orders passed by it, is complying with the directions,” the police assertion learn.
— CID West Bengal (@CIDWestBengal) March 6, 2024
Sheikh Shahjahan — accused of extortion, land grabbing and sexual exploitation — was arrested final week after the Calcutta High Court clarified that there was no obstacle to his arrest.
He was handed over to the CBI this afternoon, 24 hours after the High Court deadline.
The state’s argument that the matter is pending within the Supreme Court fell flat, with the High Court saying that because the Supreme Court “has not ordered a stay”, he should be handed over to the CBI by 4.15 pm”.
Sheikh Shahjahan went on the run on January 5, after his supporters attacked a team of the Enforcement Directorate, which had gone to search his house in connection with a ration scam. The Central agency has now attached a chunk of his properties.
Trinamool Congress has suspended him from the party for six years.