If given chance, Shahjahan will assist: Bengal police to court

Seeking 14-day custodial interrogation of Shahjahan, the West Bengal Police told the court that "if he (Shahjahan) is given a chance, he will assist" the police in the investigation. Shahjahan is a key accused in the Sandeshkhali incident and not a witness.

The remand paper filed by the West Bengal Police, accessed by ET, reads "during investigation, sufficient evidence could be collected against Sheikh Shahjahan regarding his involvement in the offence and more evidence are forth coming".

Police claim that during his interrogation Shahjahan "confessed to his guilt that on January 5 morning, when the ED officials were holding search operation on his residential premises, he called his men as he feared arrest by the ED officials."