Shahjahan Sheikh’s Judicial Custody Extended Till May 13

Kolkata: The judicial custody of the suspended Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader, Shajahan Sheikh was extended till May 13 by a special PMLA court on Monday, in connection with a money laundering case.

He was arrested by the ED on March 30 in connection with a mob assault on the agency’s officials in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on January 5, who were in the area to search his premises in Sarberia village in connection with a ration distribution scam case.

The ED has accused Sheikh of laundering money through the siphoning of illegally procured funds derived from land grabbing of poor villagers through a pisciculture business.

Sheikh is also accused in the mob attack on ED officials, where around 1,000 people assaulted them when they went to search his premises in Sarberia village on January 5 in connection with a ration distribution scam case.