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The BJP on Tuesday slammed the Trinamool Congress authorities in West Bengal for opposing the Calcutta Excessive Courtroom’s order at hand over custody of suspended TMC chief Shajahan Sheikh to the CBI and referred to as it a matter of “nice disgrace”.
Addressing a press convention, Union minister Hardeep Singh Puri stated the state authorities’s resolution to maneuver the Supreme Courtroom in opposition to the excessive courtroom’s order “highlights its worth system”.
Puri stated the TMC will not be denying the offence but in addition giving Sheikh political cowl. It isn’t the accused however the state which has gone in enchantment to the Supreme Courtroom, he stated.
First the state authorities permits such incidents to occur after which does this, the minister stated, including that “it was a matter of nice disgrace”.
The excessive courtroom had on Tuesday directed the investigation right into a mob assault on ED officers — after they went to go looking the premises of Sheikh in Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district on January 5 in reference to a ration rip-off probe — to be transferred to the CBI.
It additionally requested the state police to offer the accused’s custody to the CBI.
The police have nevertheless refused it, claiming that the state has filed an enchantment within the Supreme Courtroom in opposition to its order.
BJP spokesperson Shazia Ilmi stated it’s shameful that such a improvement is going on in a state dominated by a girl chief minister, a reference to TMC president Mamata Banerjee.
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First Printed: Mar 06 2024 | 2:50 PM IST
