Updated On: 29 April, 2024 04:27 PM IST | Kolkata | PTI
The ED has accused Sheikh of laundering money through the siphoning of ill-gotten funds derived from land grabbing of hapless villagers, masquerading as a pisciculture business

Shajahan Sheikh. Pic/PTI
A special PMLA court on Monday extended the judicial custody of the now-suspended Trinamool Congress leader, Shajahan Sheikh, till May 13 in connection with a money laundering case over alleged siphoning of cash in the garb of pisciculture business.
Sheikh was arrested by the ED on March 30 in connection with a mob assault on the agency`s officials when they had gone to search his premises in Sandeshkhali in West Bengal`s North 24 Parganas district on January 5 in relation to another money laundering case.