The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday morning carried out searches at a number of locations in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali linked with suspended Trinamool Congress MLA Sheikh Shahjahan, ANI reported.
Suspended Trinamool Congress chief Sheikh Shahjahan.(File)
India Today reported that the ED performed raids on a brick kiln belonging to Sheikh Shahjahan in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district. The raids have been completed in reference to a land seize case filed in opposition to Sheikh Shahjahan, it reported
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Several groups of the central company reportedly reached Sandeshkhali round 6.30am. The ED officers are accompanied by paramilitary personnel.
The improvement comes every week after the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) officers and forensic consultants searched Sheikh Shahjahan’s house and a market he owns in Sandeshkhali on March 8.
Sheikh Shahjahan, who has been accused of sexual violence and land seize in Sandeshkhali village, was arrested on February 29 morning by the West Bengal Police.
He was handed over to the CBI on March 6 underneath orders of the Calcutta excessive courtroom and within the midst of a raging political row.
Unrest in Sandeshkhali
The island village of Sandeshkhali within the North 24 Parganas district has been within the eye of the storm since January 5, when ED officers arrived to look the house of Shahjahan, a detailed aide of former minister Jyoti Priya Mallick, who was arrested in October final 12 months in reference to an alleged ration distribution rip-off. The ED staff got here underneath assault from an offended mob, leaving three officers injured.
On February 7, different violent protests started erupting in Sandeshkhali and different close by villages, with teams of residents led principally by native ladies, alleging sexual harassment by the hands of native TMC leaders together with Sheikh Shahjahan, his brother Sirajuddin, and different associates Shibaprasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar. Other villages have claimed that Shahjahan and his associates additionally indulged in landgrab.
Shahjahan, a former TMC zila parishad chief, was arrested by the state police on the orders of the excessive courtroom on February 29. The CID later took over the investigation.
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