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Lionel Messi’s squad has written to the Bidhannagar Police and said that the lawsuit successful Kolkata past twelvemonth was disrupted erstwhile erstwhile Sports Minister Aroop Biswas entered the venue on with unauthorised personnel and unaccredited cameras successful restricted areas.
According to sources, the Argentine football legend has reportedly directly written to the Bidhannagar Police Commissioner and has named erstwhile Sports Minister Aroop Biswas arsenic 1 of the main figures down the chaos in the Salt Lake Stadium successful Kolkata.
Satadru Dutta, the main organiser of the “G.O.A.T. India Tour”, had filed the ailment against Mr. Biswas.
According to Mr. Dutta, the connection to the Bidhannagar Police was sent by a member of the team that had accompanied Mr. Messi during the December 2025 lawsuit successful Kolkata. The Chief advisor and consultant of Mr. Messi’s circuit successful India has reportedly sent the email.
“This will definitely help with the investigation. What is amended than Mr. Messi’s ain team writing an email for this investigation? The information should travel out,” Mr. Dutta told The Hindu on Wednesday (June 17, 2026).
According to sources who were portion of the organising team shared parts of the email which said that the erstwhile Sports Minister entered the stadium and engaged Mr. Messi successful activities that were not portion of the archetypal schedule.
“This included repeated unscheduled interactions and carnal interaction with Mr. Messi including placing hands connected his enarthrosis and astir his waist for photographs,” the email said. The email further added that this along with the beingness of many unauthorised people and 40 unaccredited photographers led to large information concerns for the shot icon.
It besides stated that successful their opinion, Mr. Dutta (the organiser) whitethorn not person been liable for the chaos and crook of events because they did not face immoderate hassle oregon information issues successful immoderate of the different 3 events crossed India, which were also organised by Mr. Dutta.
However, The Hindu has not individually verified the contents of the email.
Summons to Aroop Biswas
Police had served astatine slightest 3 notices to the erstwhile Sports minister, but he failed to appear for each three.
Mr. Biswas had besides moved to Calcutta High Court and the tribunal had asked constabulary to not instrumentality immoderate coercive enactment against him
The lawsuit against Mr. Biswas alleges extortion, cheating, and misuse of governmental influence. The lawsuit held successful December 2025 astatine the Salt Lake stadium ended successful monolithic chaos and vandalism, leading to large embarrassment for the ruling authorities connected the planetary stage.
Mr. Dutta was immediately arrested by the police after the chaos unfolded and was blamed for the crook of events. Later, he received bail. Once he came out from jail, he said that helium was made the scapegoat for the fiasco when Mr. Biswas was the idiosyncratic to blame.
