New Delhi:
The CBI on Monday arrested three alleged associates of suspended TMC chief Shahajahan Sheikh together with his safety guard in reference to the January 5 assault on an Enforcement Directorate workforce, officers mentioned.
The company took into custody Sheikh’s safety guard Didar Baksh Molla, who’s the complainant in one of many three FIRs registered by the West Bengal Police after the assaults. These FIRs have been handed over to the CBI by the Calcutta Excessive Court docket.
In addition to Baksh Molla, the CBI additionally arrested Jaiuddin Molla, the Panchayat Pradhan of Sarberia village, and one other individual Faruk Akunji.
All three are shut associates of Sheikh who is taken into account the mastermind behind the assault, the officers mentioned.
“They are going to be produced earlier than a Justice of the Peace tomorrow,” a CBI spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
The CBI had summoned 9 shut aides and associates of Sheikh for questioning within the case on Monday, the officers mentioned.
The company suspects that these 9 people had been allegedly a part of the assault on Enforcement Directorate (ED) officers on January 5 and instigated the gang to focus on the workforce after they went to raid the premises of Sheikh at Sandeshkhali in West Bengal, they mentioned.
Sheikh, whose function within the assault is beneath probe, is within the custody of the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) until March 14, the officers mentioned.
The CBI has taken over investigation in three instances associated to incidents on January 5, when ED officers had been attacked by an round 1000-strong mob after they went to go looking Sheikh’s premises in reference to the company’s investigation into an alleged ration distribution rip-off case. A former state minister has been arrested within the ration case.
Sheikh was arrested by the state police on February 29, a day after the excessive court docket ordered that the CBI, ED or the West Bengal police might arrest him.
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