The CBI has filed a chargesheet against suspended TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh and six others in connection with the January 5 attack on an Enforcement Directorate team at Sandeshkhali. The agency filed its first chargesheet in the case on Monday (May 27) before a special court, officials said.
The ED team had come under attack from a 1,000-strong mob when they went to raid Sheikh’s house in connection with the alleged multi-crore ration distribution scam in West Bengal. The team had gone to arrest him because of his alleged close links with arrested former state food minister Jyoti Priya Mallick under scanner in the scam.
Sandeshkhali, a riverine island around 80 km from Kolkata, has been in the news after local women alleged land-grabbing and sexual abuse by Sheikh and his men, who are involved in fish farming and trading.
The CBI has taken over investigation in three cases related to incidents on January 5. Sheikh was arrested by the state police on February 29 and the CBI took him under its custody on March 6.
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