In her first response to the attack on an NIA team at Bhupatinagar in Purba Medinipur district while carrying out a probe in connection with a blast case, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday claimed the elite anti-terror agency did not share any prior word with the state government on
The suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shahjahan Sheikh on Monday remanded to the custody of the Enforcement Directorate till April 13 in the Sandeshkhali ED assault case.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Agnimitra Paul on Friday said that Sheikh Shahjahan will definitely be punished for his actions but "what punishment will be given to West Bengal Chief Minister" Mamata Banerjee as she was aware of the acts being committed by TMC leader in Sandeshkhali.
"The CBI had prayed for six-day police custody of Sheikh Shahjahan, Sukumar Sardar and Mehbul Molla in case no. 8 of Nazat Police Station. The learned court allowed it...," Raja Bhaumik, the lawyer representing Sheikh Shahjahan and other accused in the Sandeshkhali ED assault case told ANI.
The CBI on Saturday arrested Sheikh Alamgir, brother of recently arrested Sandehskhali strongman Sheikh Shahjahan, and two others for allegedly spearheading an attack on the visiting ED team on January 5.
Women from the tribal and Dalit communities in Sandeshkhali opened up about the alleged atrocities perpetrated on them by suspended and jailed TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan and his henchmen, demanding that his two brothers be arrested as well in connection with the incidents.
The agency conducted these raids days after Shahjahan was arrested. Shahjahan, accused of sexual violence and land grab in Sandeshkhali village, was arrested on February 29 morning by West Bengal Police from a house in Minakhan in North 24 Parganas district in the state where he was hiding.
The Basirhat Sub-Divisional Court on Sunday sent suspended Trinamool Congress strongman and Sandeshkhali-accused Sheikh Shahjahan to four-day CBI custody in connection with the January 5 attack on the Enforcement Directorate team in Sandeshkhali.
Suspended Trinamool Congress strongman and Sandeshkhali-accused, Sheikh Shahjahan, was brought out of the CBI office at Nizam Palace in Kolkata on Sunday.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Friday concluded a search at the residence of suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan in connection with the Sandehskhali case, in which four officials from the Directorate of Enforcement came under attack while raiding the resi