Kolkata:

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday carried out raids at residences of businessmen allegedly related to lacking Trinamool Congress chief Shajahan Sheikh in reference to an previous case of fraudulent land seize, a senior officer stated.

Raids and search operations had been began by the ED early Friday morning at 5 completely different locations in and across the metropolis together with Howrah, Bijoygarh and Birati, he stated.

“These raids are in reference to an previous case of fraudulent land seize in opposition to Shajahan Sheikh and his associates. These individuals had been concerned in fish companies with Shajahan. We’re searching for just a few particular paperwork”, the officer stated.

The ECIR is usually filed by the ED because the case info report. It’s just like a primary info report (FIR) in prison instances, he defined.

ED officers accompanied by an enormous variety of central forces began searches at an deal with in Howrah’s Haldarpara on the residence of fish dealer named Parthapratim Sengupta, the officer stated.

Raids are underway at 4 locations together with the home of native businessman Arun Sengupta at Birati in North 24 Parganas district and on the residence of Arun Shome within the southern a part of the town’s Bijoygarh space.

“These merchants are also concerned in export and import companies with Shajahan. We’re speaking to them to seek out out the character of their buying and selling and the way Shajahan was concerned in it,” the officer stated.

In the meantime, the central probe company on Friday issued contemporary summons to Shajahan in connection together with his alleged involvement within the multi-crore ration rip-off asking him to look earlier than its officers on February 29, an officer stated.

That is the fourth summon issued by the ED to Shajahan who has skipped all of the earlier three summons.

On January 5, a workforce of ED officers had been assaulted by a mob once they tried to enter the residence of Shajahan at Sandeshkhali in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.

Three ED officers had been injured within the assault. The district police and Sheikh’s relations had lodged a grievance in opposition to the ED officers.

Shajahan has been on the run since then.

Sandeshkhali has been within the nationwide information after native girls alleged of being gang raped and forcible land grabs by Shajahan and his males, who’re concerned in fish enterprise.

Police have until date arrested 18 individuals together with two TMC leaders and an in depth aide of Shajahan. 

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