Kolkata: Trinamool Congress chief and the occasion’s strongman in Sandeshkhali, Sheikh Shahjahan was arrested from the Minakhan PS space by the West Bengal Police within the wee hours of Thursday amid tight police safety. He had been on the run ever since he was named because the prime accused in a case associated to an assault on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers on 5 January.
Locals in Sandeshkhali have alleged that the Trinamool Zilla Parishad chairman and his aides had transformed acres and acres of agricultural land into fishponds, or bheris. Police are additionally investigating expenses of gangrape in opposition to Sheikh Shahjahan and his aides.
Chatting with the media, Supratim Sarkar, Further Director Common of Police-South Bengal, mentioned that Sheikh Shahjahan has been arrested for attacking ED officers.
“We’ve arrested Sheikh Shajahan yesterday evening from Minakhan PS space. We’ll ask for Police remand, let’s see the way it goes,” he mentioned.
Thursday morning, senior police officers of Sandeshkhali together with Speedy Motion Power (RAF) personnel secured the Basirhat district courtroom the place Shahjahan is being stored. Police sources say that in an effort to preserve legislation and order within the space, the choice was taken to lodge him within the courtroom premises straight as he has a powerful mass following.
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, saying the arrest on X, mentioned: “There was a Courtroom restraint. Due to Abhishek Banerjee, the courtroom restraint was eliminated. The police have carried out what they have been imagined to do.”
TMC Rajya Sabha MP Saket Gokhale lauded Abhishek Banerjee for Sheikh Shahjahan’s arrest — “As our Nationwide Gen Secy Abhishek Banerjee had rightly identified, it was the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom keep order that had restrained the police. We had dedicated that Sheikh Shahjahan can be arrested inside days if the hon’ble HC freed the arms of the police.”
Chatting with the media shortly after Shahjahan’s arrest, BJP MP Dilip Ghosh mentioned: “It took the police over per week to arrest one petty prison, the large goons gained’t ever be arrested right here. The TMC leaders claimed he can be arrested inside days; I don’t know whose orders the police adopted. The individuals of Sandeshkhali fought in opposition to the injustice and the prison has been arrested. The complete nation was watching what was occurring in Sandeshkhali.”
Calcutta Excessive Courtroom had Tuesday clarified there is no such thing as a keep on West Bengal Police from arresting Sheikh Shahjahan and that the courtroom had solely stayed the particular investigation staff (SIT) fashioned by a single-judge bench on 7 February to arrest Sheikh Shahjahan, beforehand.
The TMC had claimed that the HC’s 7 February keep order on the SIT probe was stopping the police from arresting Sheikh Shahjahan.
On Wednesday, the West Bengal authorities sought contemporary clarification on the order by the division bench led by Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam, the place the HC reiterated there was no keep on the arrest and likewise paved the way in which for the ED and CBI to be free to arrest Sheikh Shahjahan.
He was arrested inside 24 hours of this order.
Over the previous week, prime police officers, together with the director common of police (DGP), had rushed to Sandeshkhali as protests intensified demanding Shahjahan’s arrest. DGP Rajiv Kumar spent the evening on the riverine settlements and held a sequence of conferences on the Sandeshkhali Police Station.
(Edited by Zinnia Ray Chaudhuri)
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