The Supreme Courtroom on Monday dismissed a petition by the West Bengal authorities in opposition to the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s determination to switch to the Central Bureau of Investigation a probe into the alleged assault on Enforcement Directorate officers within the Sandeshkhali village, reported Reside Regulation.
Nonetheless, the bench of Justices BR Gavai and Sandeep Mehta accepted the West Bengal authorities’s request to expunge observations made by the Excessive Courtroom that have been essential of the state authorities and police’s conduct within the case.
The officers of the Enforcement Directorate have been allegedly attacked whereas finishing up a raid at Trinamool Congress chief Shahjahan Sheikh’s house in Sandeshkhali on January 5, in reference to an alleged ration distribution rip-off.
The Excessive Courtroom, in its order, mentioned that the West Bengal Police was “biased and each try is being made to delay the investigation so as to defend the accused, who has been absconding for greater than 50 days”.
Sheikh was arrested by the police on February 29.
On February 29, Trinamool Congress suspended him for six years amid mounting stress on the celebration to take motion in opposition to him.