‘No sympathy’: Calcutta High Court rebukes arrested Sheikh Shahjahan
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The Calcutta High Court on Thursday came down heavily on Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Sheikh Shahjahan, who was arrested in connection with the attack on an Enforcement Directorate (ED) team that was attacked last month in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district. The High Court said the arrested TMC leader did not “deserve any sympathy”.
The High Court also said it would hear on March 4 Sheikh Shahjahan’s four pending bail pleas filed in a lower court over the ED attack. It also said 42 cases were registered against him.
“We don’t have any sympathy for that person,” Chief Justice TS Shivagnanam said.
Earlier, the arrested TMC leader’s counsel said they wanted an urgent hearing on the four bail pleas regarding the ED attack.
This morning, Sheikh Shahjahan was arrested from a house in the Minakhan area in North 24 Parganas district, around 30 kilometres from the island of Sandeshkhali. He had been on the run for 55 days.
Sheikh Shahjahan was presented before a court in Basirhat, following which he sent to 10-day police custody. Currently, the police are taking him to Kolkata.
The riverine Sandeshkhali area — situated on the borders of the Sundarbans, about 75 kilometres from Kolkata — has been on the boil for more than a month with protests over allegations of sexual abuse and land grab against Sheikh Shajahan and his supporters.
The unrest stems from accusations against Sheikh Shajahan and his supporters of land grabbing and sexual assault with the local TMC strongman evading authorities since a mob attack on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials on January 5.
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