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KOLKATA: The director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Rahul Navin, on Tuesday visited the federal agency’s Kolkata office in Salt Lake and held a meeting with officials. He inquired whether the state police updated them on the probe into the incident in which three ED officers investigating a foodgrain scam case were bashed up and left bleeding by followers of a local TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali, North 24 Parganas.
Navin also met Governor CV Ananda Bose at Raj Bhavan and discussed the incident with the constitutional head of the state.
The ED, in a statement, alleged that the Bengal police had diluted the charges against Shahjahan when its complaint entailed more stringent sections. “Though our complaint attracts stringent sections including attempt to murder, the state police registered the FIR under lighter sections like rioting and wrongful restraint, most of which are bailable ones. The Bengal police have not even shared the copy of the FIR with us,” said an ED official.
Navin, who flew to Kolkata from Delhi on Tuesday, held a three-hour meeting with the central agency’s officers at its CGO Complex office. “The head of the agency took down blow-by-blow accounts of the attack that we faced when we tried to search Shahjahan’s house in the foodgrain scam case. He also asked whether the BSF guarding the India-Bangladesh border was put on high alert about the possibility of Shahjahan’s attempt to sneak into the neighbouring country,” added the official.
Though the director general of police Rajeev Kumar said whoever responsible for violating the law would not be spared, West Bengal police are in the dark about the whereabouts of Shahjahan even four days after the attack on the ED sleuths. “Shahjahan’s cellphone is switched off since the incident and no one spotted him in the areas where he runs his businesses and network of his political party,” said a police officer of Basirhat police district.
Shahjahan’s brother Sheikh Alamgir said he had no idea about the whereabouts of his brother. “I tried to contact my brother several times but his phone is switched off. He did not return home since the incident on Friday,” he said.
Haji Siddiqui Mollah, chief of the TMC-dominated panchayat in Sandeshkhali, said he doesn’t believe that Shahjahan fled from the area. “He is very much in the area and overseeing party’s affairs because the Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held this year. Shahjahan is not person who will get scared and flee. But I have no idea where he is. Had I been aware of it, I would have been with him,” he said.
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IPC sections against Shahjahan ED sought for
307: Attempt to murder
326: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt
333: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to a public servant
353: Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharging his or her duty
392: Robbery
397: Robbery with deadly weapons or causing grievous hurt.
148: Rioting
186: Voluntarily obstructing any public servant
189: Threat of injury to public servant
426: Mischief
440: mischief having made preparation for causing death, or hurt, or wrongful restraint
342: Wrongful confinement.
IPC sections Bengal police slapped against Shahjahan
148: Rioting
186: Threat of injury to public servant
353: Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharging his or her duty
323: Voluntarily causing hurt
427: Mischief causing loss or damage to amount fifty
379: Theft
504: Insult to provoke breach of peace Follow channel on WhatsApp
KOLKATA: The director of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), Rahul Navin, on Tuesday visited the federal agency’s Kolkata office in Salt Lake and held a meeting with officials. He inquired whether the state police updated them on the probe into the incident in which three ED officers investigating a foodgrain scam case were bashed up and left bleeding by followers of a local TMC leader Shahjahan Sheikh in Sandeshkhali, North 24 Parganas.
Navin also met Governor CV Ananda Bose at Raj Bhavan and discussed the incident with the constitutional head of the state.
The ED, in a statement, alleged that the Bengal police had diluted the charges against Shahjahan when its complaint entailed more stringent sections. “Though our complaint attracts stringent sections including attempt to murder, the state police registered the FIR under lighter sections like rioting and wrongful restraint, most of which are bailable ones. The Bengal police have not even shared the copy of the FIR with us,” said an ED official.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
Navin, who flew to Kolkata from Delhi on Tuesday, held a three-hour meeting with the central agency’s officers at its CGO Complex office. “The head of the agency took down blow-by-blow accounts of the attack that we faced when we tried to search Shahjahan’s house in the foodgrain scam case. He also asked whether the BSF guarding the India-Bangladesh border was put on high alert about the possibility of Shahjahan’s attempt to sneak into the neighbouring country,” added the official.
Though the director general of police Rajeev Kumar said whoever responsible for violating the law would not be spared, West Bengal police are in the dark about the whereabouts of Shahjahan even four days after the attack on the ED sleuths. “Shahjahan’s cellphone is switched off since the incident and no one spotted him in the areas where he runs his businesses and network of his political party,” said a police officer of Basirhat police district.
Shahjahan’s brother Sheikh Alamgir said he had no idea about the whereabouts of his brother. “I tried to contact my brother several times but his phone is switched off. He did not return home since the incident on Friday,” he said.
Haji Siddiqui Mollah, chief of the TMC-dominated panchayat in Sandeshkhali, said he doesn’t believe that Shahjahan fled from the area. “He is very much in the area and overseeing party’s affairs because the Lok Sabha elections are scheduled to be held this year. Shahjahan is not person who will get scared and flee. But I have no idea where he is. Had I been aware of it, I would have been with him,” he said.
ALSO READ | Amid furore over attack on ED officers in Bengal, Mamata alleges bid to malign state
IPC sections against Shahjahan ED sought for
307: Attempt to murder
326: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt
333: Voluntarily causing grievous hurt to a public servant
353: Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharging his or her duty
392: Robbery
397: Robbery with deadly weapons or causing grievous hurt.
148: Rioting
186: Voluntarily obstructing any public servant
189: Threat of injury to public servant
426: Mischief
440: mischief having made preparation for causing death, or hurt, or wrongful restraint
342: Wrongful confinement.
IPC sections Bengal police slapped against Shahjahan
148: Rioting
186: Threat of injury to public servant
353: Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharging his or her duty
323: Voluntarily causing hurt
427: Mischief causing loss or damage to amount fifty
379: Theft
504: Insult to provoke breach of peace Follow channel on WhatsApp
