In a major action, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has arrested two leaders of Trinamool Congress in the case of alleged misbehavior with judicial officers and encirclement by violent mob in Malda district of West Bengal. The arrested leaders include TMC president of Kaliachak-1 block Sariul Shaikh and former TMC president of Sujapur area Yusuf Shaikh.
According to the information, in the month of April, a case of Muslim mob surrounding seven judicial officers, stopping their vehicles and attacking them came to light in Kaliachak area of Malda. After a long interrogation in this case, NIA detained both the leaders on Friday. He was brought to Kolkata on Saturday.
According to sources, before the counting of votes for the West Bengal Assembly elections, NIA had sent notices to a total of nine leaders. These included the names of Sujapur Assembly seat candidate Sabina Yasmin’s election agent Abdur Rahman, Block President Sariul Shaikh, former Food Superintendent Haji Ketabuddin Shaikh and Yusuf Shaikh.
Initially many leaders had shown reluctance to appear before the NIA citing busyness in counting of votes, but later they had to appear before the agency.
During interrogation, NIA has also seized mobile phones of the arrested leaders. The investigating agency claims that the two leaders are directly linked to the protest in which vehicles of judicial officers were stopped at Mothabadi and National Highway No. 12 was blocked near Sujapur Hospital.
It is being told that Sariul Sheikh has a nursing home near Sujapur Hospital and the crowd that stopped the vehicles of judicial officers had gathered in front of the same nursing home. According to the NIA, the arrested leaders have been arrested for allegedly obstructing judicial officers at the BDO office in Mothabadi on April 1 and blocking National Highway-12 at Sujapur and Chowringhee turn on the same night.
Another major arrest in this case is that of Manjir alias Bhola Shaikh, who is said to be a resident of Halpara area of Sujapur Gram Panchayat.
The investigating agency is now probing what was the conspiracy behind the blockage at five different places on the national highway and whether the action was pre-planned. The NIA is also investigating who organized the mob and what was the motive behind targeting the judicial officers.
After the continuous arrests in the Malda violence case, the stir in the politics of West Bengal has also intensified. Opposition parties are raising questions linking this matter to law and order and political protection, while the investigating agencies are now trying to get to the bottom of the entire network and the alleged conspiracy.
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