Sandeshkhali Scandal: Calcutta High Court was seen in action on Tuesday in the Sandeshkhali violence case of West Bengal. Taking a strict stance on the matter, the court has ordered CSBI investigation in a total of three cases. After violent protests led by women in Sandeshkhali and political struggle that lasted for several days, in the early hours of February 29, Trinamool Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh, who was absconding for 55 days, was caught by the police. Sheikh is accused of sexual harassment and land grabbing.
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Additional Director General of Police (South Bengal) Supratim Sarkar had said that Shaikh was arrested from a house in Minakhan police station area, about 30 km from Sandeshkhali on the outskirts of Sundarban in North 24 Parganas district.
Police said that Sheikh was hiding in that house along with some associates. According to him, after his arrest he was produced in Basirhat court where he was sent to police custody for 10 days. Sheikh, wearing white kurta-pajama, came out of the lockup at around 10.40 in the morning and went towards the court room. He waved towards the media persons waiting there.
After the court hearing that lasted barely two minutes, he was taken to Kolkata’s Bhawani Bhawan, which is the police headquarters. The investigation of this case has now come into the hands of the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
Targeting Mamata
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday made a scathing attack on the Trinamool Congress (TMC) government of West Bengal over atrocities on women in Sandeshkhali. The PM had said that the entire country is angry on this issue. He called upon the people to defeat Mamata Banerjee’s party in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Modi also criticized the opposition alliance ‘India’ for maintaining silence on the Sandeshkhali incidents and compared their inaction to Mahatma Gandhi’s “three monkeys”. The three monkeys symbolize “See no evil, Speak no evil and Hear no evil”.
PM had raised the issue of Sandeshkhali
PM Modi criticized TMC and its leadership by accusing them of audacity and shamelessness in treating women in Sandeshkhali. He said at a rally in Arambag in Hooghly district, “Amidst the achievements, the entire country is keeping an eye on the situation in Bengal today.
The whole country is sad and angry after seeing what Trinamool Congress, which beats the drum of Maa, Mati and Manush, did to the sisters of Sandeshkhali. What TMC did to the sisters of Sandeshkhali is a matter of shame.”
