Shajahan Sheikh was arrested in a case related to mob attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali (File)
The CBI on Wednesday summoned a brother of suspended Trinamool Congress leader Shajahan Sheikh and a few others close to him for questioning in connection with the mob attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali on January 5, officials said.
A CBI team went to Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district and, with the help of the local police, reached the house of Shajahan’s brother Alamgir Sheikh.
Officials said that Alamgir Sheikh was not present at home, and the notice for questioning was served to his family.
The notice was also served to a few other people, considered close to Shajahan who was arrested last month by the state police. The case was later transferred to the CBI by the Calcutta High Court.
A family member of another local panchayat leader, to whom the notice was served, confirmed receiving it.
Officials said that the probe agency wants to interrogate several people as part of the investigation.
CBI sleuths, along with forensic and ED officials, on March 8 searched the residence of Shajahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali in connection with its probe into an attack on an ED team in the area, officials said.
On Tuesday, the CBI obtained a remand of Shajahan Sheikh for 10 days, along with three others, from a sub-divisional court at Basirhat.
Shajahan Sheikh, who has been suspended from the ruling TMC, was arrested in a case related to a mob attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali on January 5 when the central agency had gone to search his premises in connection with an alleged ration distribution scam.
Former state minister Jyoti Priya Mallick, who held the Food and Supplies portfolio from 2011 to 2021, has been arrested in the alleged ration distribution scam case by the ED.
The Calcutta High Court on March 5 transferred the case to CBI.
Shajahan, along with his aides Shiba Prasad Hazra, Uttam Sardar and others, were also accused of sexual abuse and land grabbing in Sandeshkhali. Hazra and Sardar were arrested too.
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