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Former Trinamool Congress Minister Udayan Guha was arrested from his residence successful Kolkata’s Phoolbagan country connected Wednesday (June 17, 2026) successful transportation with a cheating and fiscal misappropriation case registered successful Cooch Behar district.
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“Mr. Guha has been arrested based connected an FIR lodged astatine Dinhata constabulary presumption connected June 11 nether Sections 406, 409, 420 of the IPC. The lawsuit relates to allegations of cheating and postulation of ‘cut money’ nether the Pradhan Mantri Awaas Yojana since 2016," said a elder constabulary serviceman from Cooch Behar.
He said that the complainant, an idiosyncratic from Dinhata, alleged that the erstwhile Minister collected crores of rupees from section residents to acceptable up a children's portion astatine a authorities hospital. The complainant besides claimed that the erstwhile Minister did not contented immoderate receipts against the wealth collected and that the promised task was ne'er executed.
Mr. Guha is the 4th Minister from the erstwhile Trinamool Congress authorities to look apprehension since the BJP came to powerfulness successful West Bengal aft the 2026 Assembly elections. Earlier, former Minister Sujit Bose, Ujjwal Biswas and Dilip Mondal were arrested by the constabulary and the Enforcement Directorate connected charges of cheating, extortion and transgression intimidation.
Mr. Guha is the lad of erstwhile Forward Bloc person and State Agriculture Minister Kamal Guha. He won the 2011 Assembly elections connected a Forward Bloc summons but aboriginal switched to the Trinamool Congress, connected whose summons helium won the 2016 Assembly election.
Meanwhile, the Kolkata constabulary arrested Trinamool Congress councillor Sushanta Ghosh of Ward fig 108 from Puri successful Odisha aft helium had allegedly been absconding for weeks.
According to the police, Mr. Ghosh and his associates allegedly extorted implicit ₹3 crore from hawkers and traders adjacent the EM Bypass-Ruby crossing successful Kolkata, pursuing which astatine slightest 130 members of a hawkers’ relation lodged an FIR against him astatine Anandapur constabulary station.
The constabulary said Mr. Ghosh had absconded aft the FIR was registered. His operator was arrested by a squad of the Anandapur constabulary from Bengal-Odisha borderline connected Friday.
