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Anger spilled onto the streets of southest Kolkata connected Sunday (June 7, 2026) arsenic hundreds of residents gathered extracurricular the Patuli constabulary presumption to protestation against Trinamool Congress Councillor Bappaditya Dasgupta, arrested connected superior charges, including extortion.
The simmering resentment reached a highest erstwhile demonstrators hurled eggs astatine the accused person arsenic constabulary escorted him to the Alipore tribunal amid choky security.
Mr. Dasgupta, the councillor of Ward 101 of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation, was arrested connected Saturday (June 6, 2026) evening on with an associate, Sourav Ghosh.
They were booked nether aggregate sections of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS), including charges related to extortion, transgression trespass, transgression intimidation, attempted arson and different superior offences, a elder Kolkata Police serviceman said.
The lawsuit stems from a ailment filed by section advocator Paramita Dey, who alleged that Mr. Dasgupta demanded ₹20 lakh from her erstwhile she sought to acceptable up a ineligible enclosure astatine her residence.
According to the complaint, Ms. Dey yet paid ₹2 lakh aft facing sustained unit and intimidation.
"The ailment further alleges that soon aft the declaration of the 2021 Assembly predetermination results, Dasgupta and his associates unlawfully entered Dey's residence, vandalised spot and attempted to acceptable it connected fire," the serviceman said.
Ms. Dey besides claimed that contempt making the payment, she continued to look threats from the councillor's supporters and endured societal harassment and ostracism, yet forcing her to relocate from the area.
Outside Patuli Police Station, protesters raised slogans branding the councillor a "thief" and demanding stringent enactment against him. Several residents accused Mr. Dasgupta of engagement successful land-grabbing activities and intimidation of those who refused to conscionable alleged monetary demands.
As police, assisted by cardinal paramilitary personnel, moved the accused from the presumption to the court, the concern turned volatile.
Witnesses said protesters attempted to artifact the convoy and pelted eggs astatine the conveyance carrying Mr. Dasgupta, reflecting the grade of nationalist outrage surrounding the case.
"These outbursts from radical are the fallout of the semipermanent torture they person been subjected to by these TMC leaders. People are present coming retired to registry complaints due to the fact that they spot PM Modi's slogan of 'Bhoy out, Bharosa in',”said Indranil Khan, a curate successful the recently elected BJP government. "These accused leaders cannot flight the law, which volition instrumentality its ain course. I volition lone reiterate what our main curate has appealed to the radical of Bengal astir not taking the instrumentality into their ain hands.”
