Kolkata: Snubbed by the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom, West Bengal Police have withdrawn a supplementary cost sheet in a previous homicide case in opposition to suspended Trinamool Congress chief Sheikh Shahjahan.
He’s the accused mastermind of the January 5 assault on ED and CAPF groups at Sandeshkhali.
Metropolis police sources mentioned the motion of withdrawing the supplementary cost sheet has additionally been knowledgeable to the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s single-judge bench of Justice Jay Sengupta. On April 1, the justice described the supplementary cost sheet as “contempt-of-court” and cautioned issuing the mandatory rule in opposition to the state police.
The matter pertains to an previous case associated to the homicide of three BJP staff at Sandeshkhali, wherein the state police filed its cost sheet with out together with the title of Shahjahan although the latter was the prime accused within the case.
The relations of the sufferer later approached the single-judge bench of Justice Sengupta, objecting to the non-inclusion of Shahjahan’s title within the cost sheet. After that, the bench had lately put an interim keep on the investigation being carried out by the state police.
Nevertheless, when the matter got here up for listening to on April 1, Justice Sengupta famous that the state police filed a supplementary cost sheet in the identical case even when the interim keep order was in place.
Thereafter, Justice Sengupta expressed his displeasure over the event and questioned how the state police might file a supplementary cost sheet after the courtroom put a keep on the investigation.
He additionally directed the state police to instantly withdraw the supplementary cost sheet or face contempt of courtroom prices.
