{"id":504332,"date":"2024-03-11T14:49:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=504332"},"modified":"2024-03-11T14:49:38","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T09:19:38","slug":"shahjahan-sheikh-close-aides-cbi-summon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/india-news\/shahjahan-sheikh-close-aides-cbi-summon\/","title":{"rendered":"CBI summons 9 close aides of Shahjahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Nine close associates and aides of TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh, who is under suspension, have been called by the CBI to appear before the agency on Monday, according to officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nine people are suspected by the agency of being involved in the January 5 attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials and of inciting the public to attack the team during their raid of Sheikh&#8217;s premises at Sandeshkhali, West Bengal. They have been asked to appear at CBI office, Nizam Palace, Kolkata.<br><br>According to sources, Sheikh, whose involvement in the attack is being investigated, is being held by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) till March 14. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CBI has summoned nine persons of Sandeshkhali, including some close aides and acquaintances of the main accused Sheikh Shahjahan for questioning in relation to the attack on the ED officers case. They have been asked to appear at Nizam Palace, CBI office, Kolkata.<\/p>&mdash; ANI (@ANI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANI\/status\/1767075578954252545?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Three cases associated with incidents on January 5\u2014when ED officials were attacked by a crowd estimated to number in the thousands\u2014have been turned over to the CBI. These incidents are related to the agency&#8217;s ongoing investigation into an alleged ration distribution scam, which has resulted in the arrest of a former state minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In addition to attacking an ED team that was conducting a raid on Shahjahan&#8217;s Sandeshkhali house in relation to the purported ration scam, Shahjahan and his men are also charged with extortion, land grabs, and sexual assaults of women.<br><br>On February 29, Sheikh was taken into custody by the state police, following a directive from the high court permitting the arrest of Sheikh by the CBI, ED, or West Bengal police. The High Court decided on Wednesday to give the CBI custody of Shahjahan, the main accused, and the case related to the attack on ED officers, along with a contempt notice to the CID. The state police engaged in a game of hide and seek\u00a0in this situation, the court added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nine people have been asked to appear at  CBI office, Nizam Palace, Kolkata.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":504334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1497,125714],"tags":[346,162147,162276],"yst_prominent_words":[],"ppma_author":[140543],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2024\/03\/11144643\/1707551255_shahjahan-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140543,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"apnnewsdesk","display_name":"APN Live","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/478eacb893eda88aa6ed8d99b005bf58?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504332"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=504332"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=504332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->