On a request from the central agency, a court in Basirhat, West Bengal, on Sunday extended the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) custody of Shahjahan Sheikh, a major accused in a mob attack on ED officials in Sandeshkhali, by an additional four 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 High Court order.
When Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials went to search the now-suspended Trinamool Congress leader’s Sandeshkhali property, they were attacked.
On the central agency’s request, the judge of the Basirhat court in the North 24 Parganas district extended Sheikh’s custody to the CBI for a further four days.
The court ordered Sheikh to appear before it once more on March 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sheikh was brought before the Basirhat court, which is around 70 kilometers from Kolkata, where he is being held under strict security by the CBI.
When ED officers went to inspect Sheikh’s Sandeshkhali property on January 5 as a\u00a0part of their investigation into a possible ration distribution scam in which a former state minister has been detained, they were attacked by a crowd estimated to be approximately a thousand people.
The state police detained Sheikh on February 29, one day after the high court granted permission for the CBI, ED, or West Bengal police to make an arrest of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Shahjahan\u2019s daughter Shabana Yasmin, who was present in the court, said her father is innocent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Talking to media, Shabana said, her father is innocent. He has been implicated. She is sure the truth will surface at the right time. Let there be a proper investigation in the matter, Yasmin said. However, she refused to give an answer when asked who had implicated her father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Shahjahan\u2019s lawyer did not make any bail requests on his client’s behalf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following his arrest on February 28, Shahjahan was remanded to ten days of police prison by the Basirhat Sub-divisional Court the following day.
After that, he was placed under the supervision of CID-West Bengal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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