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“Bangla Pokkho” laminitis Garga Chatterjee was arrested by the Kolkata Police’s Cyber Cell connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) connected allegations of spreading misinformation astir EVM manipulation during the precocious held West Bengal Assembly elections.
Bangla Pokkho is simply a pro-Bengali advocacy organisation, and Mr. Chatterjee is often found campaigning for prioritising the Bengali connection and Bengalis implicit different languages and communities successful West Bengal. During the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, helium urged radical to ballot either for Trinamool Congress oregon Left Front candidates, but not the Bharatiya Janata Party, claiming that the saffron enactment is simply a enactment of “outsiders”
“The ailment against him was lodged by the District Election Officer (DEO) of Kolkata North, pursuing which the cyber compartment initiated action. He was summoned doubly successful transportation with the matter, but helium did not appear, and that is the crushed helium was arrested today,” Kolkata Police Commissioner Ajay Nand told media persons astatine Lalbazar Police Headquarters.
This is not the archetypal clip Mr. Chatterjee has been arrested by the Kolkata Police. In August 2022, helium was arrested for allegedly hurting the sentiments of Assamese radical and promoting enmity betwixt communities. The apprehension was made connected the orders of the Gauhati High Court aft an FIR was filed against him for allegedly making objectionable remarks against a ruler of the Ahom dynasty.
ED custody for ex-Minister
In different development, erstwhile Trinamool Congress Minister Sujit Bose, who was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) connected Monday, was sent to 10-day ED custody. The Central probe bureau alleged that Mr. Bose had illegally recommended 150 candidates for antithetic posts nether the South Dum Dum Municipality successful lieu of pecuniary benefits.
On Tuesday, the ED’s counsel told a peculiar tribunal that during the Covid-19 lockdown, a edifice owned by Mr. Bose had reported income of astir ₹1.11 crore.
Messi occurrence backmost successful focus
In yet different development, recently appointed West Bengal Sports Minister Nisith Pramanik said that helium has sought the record related to the Lionel Messi lawsuit successful Kolkata, wherever unit had erupted owed to mismanagement. Former Sports Minister and Trinamool Congress person Aroop Biswas had been blamed for the incident. Mr. Pramanik said helium would speech to Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari and instrumentality enactment if required.
