A key witness within the Sandeshkhali circumstances involving jailed Trinamool Congress chief Sheikh Shahjahan was injured on Wednesday after a truck collided together with his automotive in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district, reported PTI.
The youthful son of Bholanath Ghosh and the motive force of the automotive had been killed within the collision.
Speaking to reporters, Ghosh alleged that the crash was “not an accident”. His elder son, Biswajit, claimed that it was a “deliberate try to homicide” his father.
He additionally accused Shahjahan of orchestrating the alleged crime, reported PTI.
The collision occurred at round 8.45 am on the Basanti Highway when Ghosh was travelling to the Basirhat sub-divisional court docket to seem in a case that Shahjahan had filed in opposition to him.
An unidentified police official stated {that a} 16-wheel heavy truck struck the automotive, dragged it alongside the street and pushed it right into a water physique. The driver of the truck fled after the accident.
“I used to be sitting subsequent to the motive force, and my son was seated behind him,” the information company quoted Ghosh as saying. “The truck got here and hit our automotive at full velocity on its proper facet.”
He was taken to an area hospital after which to a non-public facility in Kolkata. The our bodies of his son, Satyajit, and driver, Sahanur Molla, have been despatched for autopsy examination.
Biswajit alleged that two native panchayat officers had been additionally concerned within the crash, The Indian Express reported.
“They had threatened to kill my father earlier,” he advised the newspaper. “This shouldn’t be an accident – 100% homicide.”
Police stated they had been investigating the incident.
“We usually are not certain if it was an accident,” an unidentified police officer advised The Indian Express. “We are probing each angle. We are placing extra emphasis on why the collision occurred the place there is no such thing as a CCTV protection and the way the motive force fled the spot.”
Leader of the Opposition Suvendu Adhikari stated the case ought to be transferred out of the state, alleging that “Shahjahan has orchestrated this accident”, PTI reported.
On January 5, 2024, Enforcement Directorate officers had been allegedly attacked at Sandeshkhali village within the North 24 Parganas district after they had been finishing up raids at Shahjahan’s home in reference to an alleged ration distribution rip-off.
A mob allegedly attacked the Enforcement Directorate officers with stones, bricks and batons.
Following this, a number of native girls accused Sheikh and his associates, Shiba Prasad Hazra and Uttam Sardar, of torturing and sexually harassing them for a number of years and in addition of grabbing their lands for prawn cultivation. Sheikh, Hazra and Sardar had been arrested in February 2024.
Days later, the Trinamool Congress suspended Sheikh for six years amid mounting strain on the occasion to take motion in opposition to its chief.
