Former TMC MLA and first mayor of Bidhnanagar held by Kolkata police

The erstwhile Trinamool Congress MLA and the archetypal politician of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, Sabyasachi Dutta, was arrested connected Monday nighttime (June 8, 2026) for allegedly extorting implicit ₹1.05 crore from a Salt Lake-based businessman successful 2018. 

According to the officials, a squad from Bidhannagar North constabulary presumption instantly conducted a hunt cognition astatine Mr. Dutta’s residence successful Rajarhat’s Raigachhi area, arsenic per the ailment lodged by the businessman Mahdusudan Chakraborty. He was besides aboriginal arrested. 

“We person gathered immoderate grounds against him during the raid. Mr. Chakraborty has alleged that Mr. Dutta extorted the wealth successful 2018 and aboriginal had besides been threatening for more,” said an officer. 

However, Mr. Dutta denied each the allegations. While helium was being taken for a aesculapian examination, Mr. Dutta told the reporters, “All the allegations are fabricated. The complainant, Mr. Chakraborty, himself was arrested successful transportation with a forgery case, pursuing which his household approached maine to get him out.”

The accused person is expected to beryllium produced earlier the tribunal connected Tuesday afternoon. 

Mr. Dutta was fielded by the Trinamool Congress successful the caller authorities assembly predetermination from the Barasat constituency but helium mislaid to BJP’s Sankar Chatterjee. He had besides served the Rajarhat New Town constituency doubly arsenic an MLA. He has besides served arsenic the first mayor of the Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation from 2015 to 2019.

Locals onslaught Dutta

Meanwhile, a radical of locals besides surrounded him and threw eggs, tomatoes and cow-dung astatine him erstwhile helium was being taken to the tribunal connected Tuesday morning.

In October 2019, helium switched to the BJP on with 8 different Trinamool Congress MLAs aft months of increasing struggle with the enactment leadership. However, helium returned to Trinamool Congress successful 2021 up of the State assembly election.

Commenting connected the development, the Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee said, “Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar instantly took information from the State and Central governments, and present she is, with the assistance of BJP, targeting leaders from TMC of her area. Last nighttime astir 1 a.m., Sabyasachi Dutta was arrested by Bengal police. This is what she is doing now.”