After ED, CBI files chargesheet against suspended TMC strongman Sheikh Shahjahan

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New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) and Enforcement Directorate (ED) have filed chargesheets against suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) strongman Sheikh Shahjahan in separate cases that they were investigating in what could further complicate matters for Shahjahan...

The CBI Monday filed its chargesheet against Shahjahan, his younger brother Sheikh Alamgir, and five others at the Basirhat special court for an alleged attack on a team of ED officers and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF), who were looking for them, in January this year...

Last week, the ED filed a prosecution complaint against Shahjahan, his brother, and two associates before a special PMLA court for alleged landgrab and money laundering in Sandeshkhali as a follow-up to an Enforcement Complaint Information Report (ECIR) filed 21 March...

Later, the Calcutta High Court ordered the transfer of the three FIRs filed by West Bengal Police over the attack on the ED officers, including the one orchestrated by Shahjahan, to the CBI...

The CBI then booked Shahjahan and the other unidentified individuals under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections of rioting, rioting with deadly weapons, unlawful assembly, wrongful restraint, voluntarily obstructing public servants in the discharge of their duties, using criminal force to deter public servants from performing their duties,causing hurt voluntarily, mischief, theft, criminal intimidation, andcommonintention, as well as Section 3 (mischief causing damage to public property) of Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act, 1984...