The Bengal authorities earlier refused to hand over custody of Shahjahan to the CBI regardless of a Calcutta High Court order Tuesday to the police’s felony investigation division, or CID.
Issuing a contempt discover to the West Bengal Crime Investigation Department, the Calcutta High Court on Wednesday requested the CID to hand over the custody of Shahjahan Sheikh, the previous Trinamool strongman accused of extortion, land seize, and sexual assault in Sandeshkhali to the Crime Investigation Bureau by immediately.
The custody of the accused Shahjahan Sheikh ought to be handed over to CBI by 4.30 pm on Wednesday, the courtroom mentioned.
Calcutta High Court additionally noticed that state police have performed cover and search within the matter.
“The accused is a highly political influencer. The investigation should be handed over to CBI and the custody of the accused by 4:15 pm today,” the High Court mentioned.
The Bengal authorities earlier refused to hand over custody of Shahjahan to the CBI regardless of a Calcutta High Court order Tuesday to the police’s felony investigation division, or CID.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal authorities on Wednesday sought an pressing listening to of its plea within the Supreme Court difficult a Calcutta High Court order that directed a CBI probe into the Sandeshkhali matter pertaining to an assault on Enforcement Directorate officers in Sandeshkhali on January 5 this 12 months.
Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi met the ladies victims of sexual assault in Sandeshkhali village of West Bengal on Wednesday,” sources said.
The sources further added, “They put ahead their ordeal and the Prime Minister heard them patiently like a father determine. The victims had been very emotional with the truth that the PM understood their ache”.
Calling the women of Sandeshkhali, his parivar (family), Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday accused the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of shielding the accused in the Sandeshkhali case and said that it is a “matter of disgrace.”
“Under TMC’s rule, the ladies of this land have been tortured. Whatever occurred in Sandeshkhali will put anybody to disgrace however the TMC authorities doesn’t care about your points. TMC authorities is hell-bent on saving the perpetrator. Their acts had been first condemned by the High Court after which the Supreme Court as nicely. TMC leaders have dedicated atrocities on the ladies of the state. Leaders of TMC are torturing the ladies from poor, Dalit, and Adivasis teams. TMC authorities trusts its leaders greater than it trusts the ladies of Bengal. TMC has full confidence of their chief however not within the girls of West Bengal,” the Prime Minister mentioned.
After weeks of no motion, on February 29, Sheikh was arrested by West Bengal police after which West Bengal’s Basirhat Court remanded him to 10-day police custody.
(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by DNA employees and is printed from ANI)
