Trinamool Congress leader Derek O Brien on Thursday said party leader Sheikh Shahjahan, who was arrested, has been suspended from the party for 6 years. Sheikh had been on the run for 55 days, the TMC strongman was arrested in the hourly hours of Thursday. The strife-torn Sandeshkhali witnessed violent protests led women in the area in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal.

Sheikh was the party convenor of Sandeshkhali assembly constituency and was also a member of Trinamool Congress held North 24 Parganas Zilla Parishad. Speaking to media in a press conference, Derek O’Brien said Trinamool Congress has decided to suspend Sheikh Shahjahan from the party for 6 years. He said TMC had set examples in the past and they are doing it today. Brien dared the BJP to suspend leaders who had corruption cases against them. He said some of the leaders of the saffron party even have criminal cases against them.

On Thursday the Calcutta court in its ruling said that it had no sympathy towards Sheikh Shahjahan. According to reports the court asked Sheikh’s lawyer to appear before it on March 4 when a suo motu motion on alleged sexual atrocities and land grabbing of tribal people at Sandeshkhali will be heard.

Sheikh’s lawyer appeared before the court and sought to make an urgent submission with regard to his client. A division bench headed by Chief Justice TS Sivagnanam asked him to appear before the court on Monday. The court said if the accused had given vakalatnama to the lawyer, then his whereabouts are known.

Shahjahan Sheikh had been brought to the West Bengal Police Directorate in Kolkata on February 29. He was arrested as he was accused for an assault on officers of the Directorate of Enforcement (ED) during a raid in the last month. He has been remanded to 10 day-police custody.

The degrading levels of education in Chhattisgarh can only be attributed to the quality of education being provided in the state. A video of a school teacher shamelessly drinking alcohol in the school staff room has stunned social media users on the internet.

In the beginning of a video circulating on social media shows a school teacher arguing with a camera man shooting him. He hides the bottle of alcohol in his shirt’s pocket and tells the camera man to move away. But as the video progresses he takes out his water bottle out of his motorcycle. The school teacher goes into the staff room and sits on his seat.

He brings out his alcohol bottle along with the water bottle. He even has two plastic glasses and seems ready to make his drink. He shamelessly tell the cameraman to go on shooting the video as he sits and makes his drink. Two other fellow school teachers are also seen sitting inside the staff room. On seeing the man pouring his drink they show their disapproval at the school teacher’s behaviour.

But the school teacher seems adamant in his behaviour and ignores them. The incident took place in broad daylight during school working hours. According to reports the video is of a primary school in Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh. The name of the school teacher in the viral video is Santosh Kewat. The video has got 13700 views till now.

Large number of social media users commented on the viral video. One social media user Arvind Singh said this school teacher is polluting the temple of education. He was of the opinion strict action must be taken against this school teacher at the earliest.

One social media user Arun Kumar said looking at the primary school teacher it seems the school belongs to his father. He said strict action must be taken against this school teacher at the earliest. He added school is the temple of education and drinking alcohol in this temple is a crime.  

The Samajwadi Party (SP) chief, Akhilesh Yadav, decided not to be cooperative in the ongoing inquiry by refusing to cooperate with the Central Bureau of Investigation’s (CBI) summons over the illegal mining case.

It is uncertain that Akhilesh Yadav will visit Delhi tomorrow since, according to a close colleague of his and a senior party official, the party office is already busy with multiple meetings about the preparations for the next Lok Sabha elections.

According to sources, Yadav has an important PDA (Picchda, Dalit, and Alpsankhyak) meeting scheduled at the party’s Lucknow headquarters later today. The party official stated that Yadav has no intention of going anywhere.

Samajwadi Party spokesperson Rajendra Chowdhury confirmed Yadav’s intention to attend the planned gathering in Lucknow. He denied any possibility of Yadav traveling to Delhi for the CBI investigation.

He said, Akhileshji will attend a meeting of PDA at the party office today. He will not be going anywhere. In Lucknow, he is scheduled to attend a meeting, said Rajendra Chowdhury.

Officials explained that Yadav is being called as a witness in the illicit mining cases that date back to his time as Uttar Pradesh’s chief minister, not as an accused party.

The cases under investigation concerned purported irregularities in the mining lease issuing, which took place between 2012 and 2016, with charges that permits were given for illicit mining activities even in the face of a National Green Tribunal prohibition.

In response to the CBI’s notice, Yadav attacked the BJP and said that the timing of the investigation was motivated by politics. He hinted that these kinds of notices, which cast doubt on the BJP’s actions and intentions, frequently occur during election seasons.

Yadav’s comments alluded to the Samajwadi Party and the ruling BJP’s continued political tensions, with charges and denials frequently occurring in the run-up to elections.