CBI registers three FIRs in Sandeshkhali attack case

CBI registered three FIRs on Tuesday hours after the Calcutta High Court ordered a probe by the federal agency into the attack on Enforcement Directorate officials at Sandeshkhali in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district.

While one of the FIRs mentions suspended - and arrested - Trinamul Congress leader Shahjahan Sheikh as the prime accused, the other two FIRs are registered against "unknown miscreants" and "unknown persons". Sheikh, who managed to evade the police dragnet for nearly two months, was recently arrested by West Bengal Police.

The suspected offences for which Shahjahan Sheikh has been booked by CBI include "rioting, rioting armed with deadly weapons, unlawful assembly, wrongful restraint, obstructing a public servant in discharge of public functions, assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty, voluntarily causing hurt, mischief causing damage, theft, criminal intimidation, acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention and mischief causing damage to public property of PDPP Act".


The other two FIRs include charges of "causing damage to public property by fire or explosive substance".