New Delhi: The Calcutta Excessive Courtroom on Wednesday stayed a single bench order for forming a joint particular investigation crew (SIT) comprising the CBI and the West Bengal Police to probe an assault on Enforcement Directorate officers on January 5.
The central company officers had been assaulted by a mob once they went to look the premises of Trinamool Congress chief Shajahan Sheikh at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district in reference to an alleged ration distribution rip-off case within the state.
Sheikh has been absconding since then.
A single bench of Justice Jay Sengupta had on January 17 directed the formation of an SIT headed by one SP rank officer every from the CBI and the state police to analyze the assault.
The division bench presided by Chief Justice T S Sivagnanam ordered the keep on an attraction by the ED which sought that solely the CBI conduct the investigation and the state police be avoided it.
The West Bengal authorities too filed an attraction earlier than the division bench in search of that the state police be allowed to proceed the investigation solely into the assault on the ED officers.
The division bench, additionally comprising Justice Supratim Bhattacharya, mentioned that the matter needs to be determined after listening to each events.
The division bench ordered a keep on the instructions of the one bench until the appeals by the ED and the state are heard and disposed of.
The courtroom restrained the West Bengal police from continuing with the investigation in circumstances registered by it.
The division bench directed that pendency of its attraction earlier than the excessive courtroom is not going to bar the ED from contesting any utility or petition which can be filed by the primary accused Shajahan Sheikh praying for anticipatory bail or bail.
The courtroom directed that the matter might be taken up for listening to once more on March 6.
The one bench had directed that the 2 SPs of the CBI and the state police can be at liberty to induct an equal variety of officers from their respective companies to conduct the investigation.
The ED, in its prayer, claimed that the state police wouldn’t be capable to maintain an unbiased probe since a minister is allegedly concerned within the alleged Rs 10,000 crore ration distribution rip-off.
The ED has arrested state Forest Minister Jyoti Priya Mallick, who held the Meals and Provides portfolio from 2011 to 2021, in reference to the case.
The ED claimed earlier than the courtroom that it has no religion within the state police, alleging that its investigation was biased and never being performed correctly.
Claiming that the state police and the CBI might be at loggerheads, Extra Solicitor Normal S V Raju, showing for the ED, submitted earlier than the division bench that the structure of a joint crew to probe the assault on the ED officers, a few of whom had been additionally injured, is not going to serve the aim.
He prayed that the investigation must be handed over to the CBI solely.
The ED counsel submitted earlier than the division bench that the case of assault has nothing to do with the probe into the alleged rip-off.
The ED on February 5 moved a single bench of the excessive courtroom in search of switch of investigation of all circumstances pertaining to the alleged Rs 10,000 crore ration distribution rip-off in West Bengal from the state police to the CBI.
It additionally claimed that Rs 2,000 crore out of the Rs 10,000 crore was despatched exterior the nation by way of unlawful means.
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