CBI arrests Shajahan Sheikh’s brother, 2 others in Sandeshkhali ED assault case
The CBI is investigating the incident of the attack on the ED in Sandeshkhali, under court orders.
The CBI is investigating the incident of the attack on the ED in Sandeshkhali, under court orders.
On the night of 5 January, when an ED team was taking Adhya into custody from his residence at Bangaon in North 24-Paragans district, his aides in the area had prevented the agency officers and the accompanying CAPF personnel from taking him away.
Noting the delay by the State police in arresting Shahjahan Sheikh, Justice Gavai asked senior advocate Jaideep Gupta why Shahjahan Sheikh was not arrested for so many days.
Rs 1.25 crore routed between the accounts of the accused in the constable paper leak case, said the CBI.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has submitted two FIRs filed against Trinamul Congress leader Sheikh Shahjahan at the Basirhat Sub-Divisional Court in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district in connection with the 5 January attack on ED and CAPF personnel in Sandeshkhali.
After getting custody of Sheikh Shahjahan, the CBI sleuths are now mulling legal options on how to transfer the suspended Trinamul Congress leader to New Delhi.
A CBI team today conducted raids at the former residence at Sarberia and also visited Basirhat police station to take custody of the documents related to the 5 January case, allegedly filed by the officers of the said police station suo-motu.
The West Bengal government had on Tuesday (March 5) as well pleaded before a bench headed by Justice Sanjiv Khanna for an urgent listing of the matter.
Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday demanded a CBI investigation into the death of Siddharth, a second-year student of Kerala Veterinary and Animal Sciences University (KVASU) at Pookode campus in Wayanad.
The central probe agency took over the probe in Sandeshkhali ED attack after Calcutta High Court order.