The West Bengal authorities informed the Supreme Court docket that it proceeded with the investigation into suspended Trinamool Congress chief Sheikh Shahjahan with “utmost importance”.
The federal government stated the Calcutta Excessive Court docket’s order handy over Shahjahan to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was “perverse, illegal and arbitrary”.
The federal government moved the Supreme Court docket on Tuesday shortly after a division bench of the Excessive Court docket ordered the police handy over Sheikh Shahjahan to the CBI in reference to the January 5 assault on Enforcement Directorate officers in Sandeshkhali.
Nevertheless, the state authorities’s matter is but to be listed within the Supreme Court docket regardless of a name for an pressing listening to as they have been in contempt following the Excessive Court docket’s order.
The Supreme Court docket requested the Bengal authorities to attend for the Chief Justice of India to move applicable orders, with out offering speedy aid.
Shahjahan is presently below CID custody. In its plea to the Supreme Court docket, the West Bengal authorities sought an ex parte keep on the Excessive Court docket order.
It stated Shahjahan was arrested instantly after the Excessive Court docket clarified that there was no restraint on his arrest, including that it “proceeded with the investigation with the utmost promptness”.
“The High Court’s order is perverse, illegal and arbitrary and deserves to be set aside. It frustrates the state’s right to avail a remedy available to it under law,” the plea stated.
The state authorities additionally stated that the switch of the investigation to the CBI “in a cursory manner is in violation of the law” laid down by the Supreme Court docket.
“The scope of an appeal against an interim order cannot be stretched to dispose of the main petition… Orders of the division bench in the matter are self-contradictory, and place the blame on the state government for inaction,” it stated, including that the in depth steps taken by the West Bengal Police within the case have been “completely ignored”.
Sheikh Shahjahan was arrested by the state police on February 29 after absconding for 55 days for the reason that assault on the ED crew in Sandeshkhali. The ED crew had gone to conduct searches in his premises in reference to an alleged ration rip-off.
Following his arrest, the Trinamool Congress suspended him for six years. Shahjahan and his henchmen have additionally been accused of sexual harassment and land seize by a number of ladies in Sandeshkhali.
For greater than a month, Sandeshkhali has witnessed a sequence of protests in connection to the accusations.