The Court said that the State government must extend its fullest cooperation to the CBI, which is probing allegations of mass sexual assault of women and grabbing of tribal lands in Sandeshkhali.
The Court considered the nature of the allegations which involve crime against women as well as forcible grabbing of lands of citizens including those belonging to scheduled tribe communities.
Sandeshkhali Violence: The small island in the Sundarban delta in West Bengal’s North 24-Parganas district has been at the centre of BJP-Trinamool politics in the state.
A large number of women in Sandeshkhali had accused Trinamool Congress strongman Shajahan Sheikh and his supporters of "land-grab and sexually assaulting" them under coercion.