Kolkata: A court in North 24-Parganas district on Thursday remanded suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Shajahan Sheikh in connection with a case on the mob attack on ED officials at Sandeshkhali in January.
Sheikh has been in CBI custody since March 6. The Calcutta High Court transferred the investigation to the Central agency from the state police. When the CBI produced him before the court of the First Additional Judicial Magistrate in Basirhat, the judge remanded Sheikh and two others to judicial custody till April 9.
ED officials were attacked by a mob when they went to search the premises of Sheikh at Sandeshkhali on January 5 in connection with the agency’s investigation into an alleged ration distribution scam case, in which a former minister of the state
has been arrested.