The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday clarified that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) are at liberty to arrest absconding Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh.
The ED and the CBI told the Bench of Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam and Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya that they had serious reservations about the West Bengal Police probing the allegations against the Trinamool Congress leader.
During the hearing of the matter ‘Court on its own motion vs State of West Bengal’, Deputy Solicitor General Dhiraj Trivedi argued, “The single judge, in the order of constituting an SIT to probe the attack on ED officers, had clearly asked the local police not to probe the case. We have an apprehension that the local police will dilute the entire case against him.”
