Security personnel stand guard at Bhavani Bhawan in Kolkata where CBI officials arrive to take Shajahan Sheikh. PTI
New Delhi/Kolkata, March 5
The Enforcement Directorate on Tuesday said it had attached over a dozen properties worth Rs 12.78 crore of suspended TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh, including bank deposits, an apartment, and agricultural and fishery land in Sandeshkhali and Kolkata in West Bengal.
A provisional order has been issued under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) to attach these assets, the agency said in a statement.
A team of ED officials was attacked by a nearly 1,000-strong mob on January 5 when they went to raid Sheikh's house at Sandeshkhali in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.
The strongman allegedly has close links with arrested former state food minister Jyoti Priya Mallick, who is being probed by the federal agency in a money laundering case linked to the multi-crore ration distribution scam in West Bengal.
Sheikh was arrested on February 29 by the West Bengal Police in the ED attack case, 55 days after he went underground following the alleged assault on the ED team. The TMC had suspended him from the party after the arrest.
The money laundering case of the ED stems from a state police FIR that booked him and some others under various sections of the IPC, Arms Act, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Prevention of Damage to Public Property Act and West Bengal State Highways Act.
These charges include those registered for committing heinous offences in the nature of giving threats of injury, murder, attempt to murder, extortion, grabbing land of general public etc, the ED said.
"Proceeds of crime acquired by Shajahan Sheikh by commission of criminal activities relating to scheduled offences as mentioned in above FIRs are being held, possessed, disguised and concealed by Shajahan Sheikh in the form of various movable and immovable properties," it said.
The provisionally attached assets of Sheikh include 14 immovable properties like an apartment, agriculture and fishery land, in Sarberia, Sandeshkhali and Kolkata apart from two bank accounts, the agency said.
The total value of these assets is Rs 12.78 crore, it said.
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