Eggs, Tomatoes Thrown at Ex-Bidhannagar Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta After Arrest in Extortion Case
Police said a businessman alleged Dutta extorted Rs 1.05 crore and made death threats, and they have some evidence in the case.
- On Monday, Bidhannagar Police arrested former Bidhannagar Mayor Sabyasachi Dutta at his Raigachi residence following a complaint by businessman Madhusudan Chakraborty, who alleged Dutta extorted Rs 1.05 crore in 2018.
- Authorities registered a First Information Report detailing allegations of mental torture and death threats; Dutta denied the accusations, calling the case "Fabricated" when speaking to reporters on Tuesday.
- Officers produced Dutta before the Bidhannagar sub-divisional court on Tuesday, where aggrieved onlookers hurled eggs and tomatoes at the leader during his arrival.
- State minister Sharadwat Mukherjee commended the arrest, stating, "The pillars of corruption and arrogance are being arrested one by one," following the recent incarceration of former Bidhannagar MLA Sujit Bose.
- Dutta unsuccessfully contested the Barasat seat in the 2026 assembly elections, having joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2019 before returning to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress.
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Kolkata, Jun 9 (PTI) Trinamool Congress leader Sabyasachi Dutta was arrested early on Tuesday from West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas district on charges of extortion and criminal intimidation, police said. Dutta, the former Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation (BMC) chairman, was apprehended from his residence at Raigachi, a senior officer said. Based on a complaint by a […]
TMC leader Sabyasachi Dutta arrested on extortion and criminal intimidation charges
TMC leader and former Bidhannagar mayor Sabyasachi Dutta has been arrested in West Bengal’s North 24 Parganas on charges of extortion and criminal intimidation over an alleged Rs 1 crore demand from a businessman. Get key details on the FIR, police action, political reactions and his court appearance.
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