Spotless white shirt and trousers, paired with a lightweight gray jacket. And a pair of glowing white sports activities footwear.
That is how Sheikh Shahjahan strutted into a courtroom in West Bengal, rising after 55 days just like the Biblical Lazarus.
That is not how most absconders who’ve been arrested typically take care of being on the run for nearly two months.
There was no duress on the face of Sheikh Shahjahan, the ‘Shenshah’ of Sandeshkhali.
The Trinamool Congress chief regarded well-fed and well-taken care of, wherever he was all these days.
His stroll had the careless confidence. His chest pumped up.
Leaders of rival political events might simply marvel and criticise.
“Take a look at the conceitedness and confidence of Shahjahan – the villain of Sandeshkhali. Is his man arrested or is he a state visitor & VIP?” requested BJP nationwide spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla, sharing a video of Shahjahan’s stroll of confidence.
“It’s clear he was defended and guarded for 50 days and now to flee from central companies, Bengal police is treating him like a VIP on TMC directions,” Poonawalla stated on X.
Sheikh Shahjahan in all probability knew that he was to be a state visitor, solely that the time period would change to police custody. Guarded by policemen, which opposition leaders have derided because the “Mamata Police”.
Not that Shahjahan’s arrest got here simple.
Regardless of dozens of girls popping out to protest the sexual and socio-economic exploitation by Shahjahan and his henchmen, the Trinamool chief of Sandeshkhali cocked a snook at everybody who wished him behind bars.
Sheikh Shahjahan was lastly held on Wednesday after the Calcutta High Court pulled up the Bengal police for the delay in action towards the Trinamool Zila parished member.
On Thursday, a court docket in Basirhat in Bengal’s North 24 Parganas sent Shahjahan to 10 days in police custody. He will likely be taken to Kolkata.
Kolkata is the place Trinamool chief and Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is. She had defended Shahjahan within the state Meeting.
It’s unlikely that Shahjahan will miss any hospitality in Kolkata, which Bengal is legendary for.
Chief of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari stated, “This isn’t arrest, it is a mutual adjustment” and stated Shahjahan will get “5-star amenities in jail”.
That was on present on Thursday, as Sheikh Shahjahan was escorted to the Basirhat court docket like a VVIP by Bengal police.
“Is that this an arrest? West Bengal Police is escorting Sheikh Shahjahan like they might escort CM Mamata Banerjee. All as of late, Sheikh Shahjahan was underneath the safety of WB Police…” stated BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya.
No matter rivals may say, Sheikh Shahjahan’s strut is considered one of confidence within the ‘reign of terror’ he has created within the Sunderbans alongside together with his brothers and in his Didi.
