{"id":427278,"date":"2024-03-06T17:54:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/03\/06\/for-sheikh-shahjahan-handover-delay-bengal-cops-cite-supreme-court-plea\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T17:54:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T17:54:00","slug":"for-sheikh-shahjahan-handover-delay-bengal-cops-cite-supreme-court-plea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/blog\/2024\/03\/06\/for-sheikh-shahjahan-handover-delay-bengal-cops-cite-supreme-court-plea\/","title":{"rendered":"For Sheikh Shahjahan Handover Delay, Bengal Cops Cite Supreme Court Plea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\">\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv_cont\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"For Sheikh Shahjahan Handover Delay, Bengal Cops Cite Supreme Court Plea\" alt=\"For Sheikh Shahjahan Handover Delay, Bengal Cops Cite Supreme Court Plea\" id=\"story_image_main\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2024-02\/a4aeion8_sheikh-shahjahan_625x300_29_February_24.jpeg\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Bengal police have attributed the delay in handing over Sheikh Shahjahan to the Central Bureau of Investigation to the state&#8217;s appeal in the Supreme Court. The handover was made since the case was not listed for hearing today, they said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, the police recounted the events leading up to the handover, including the filing of the appeal and the top court&#8217;s response.\u00a0 The court had refused to hold an urgent hearing, suggesting that the state approach the Registrar who would list the case in due course.<\/p>\n<p>The CBI, meanwhile had filed a special petition before the High Court, which held the state officials in contempt, the police said.<\/p>\n<p>In view of the pending petition before the Supreme Court, &#8220;the state government in due deference to the majesty of the High Court and the orders passed by it, is complying with the directions,&#8221; the police statement read.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"zxx\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/IXBgEFTteW\">pic.twitter.com\/IXBgEFTteW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 CID West Bengal (@CIDWestBengal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CIDWestBengal\/status\/1765392461382160566?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sheikh Shahjahan &#8212; accused of extortion, land grabbing and sexual exploitation &#8212; was arrested last week after the Calcutta High Court clarified that there was no impediment to his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>He was handed over to the CBI this afternoon, 24 hours after the High Court deadline.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s argument that the matter is pending in the Supreme Court fell flat, with the High Court saying that since the Supreme Court &#8220;has not ordered a stay&#8221;, he must be handed over to the CBI by 4.15 pm&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Sheikh Shahjahan went on the run on January 5, after his supporters attacked a team of the Enforcement Directorate, which had gone to search his house in connection with a ration scam. The Central agency has now attached a chunk of his properties.<\/p>\n<p>Trinamool Congress has suspended him from the party for six years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/for-sheikh-shahjahan-handover-delay-bengal-cops-cite-supreme-court-plea-5189531\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] New Delhi: The Bengal police have attributed the delay in handing over Sheikh Shahjahan to the Central Bureau of Investigation to the state&#8217;s appeal in the Supreme Court. The handover was made since the case was not listed for hearing today, they said. In a statement posted on X, formerly Twitter, the police recounted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":427279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[49830,500316,485785,479104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/haftavasool.com\/haftavasool\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}