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Police issued a caller announcement to erstwhile West Bengal Sports Minister Aroop Biswas connected Saturday (June 13, 2026), asking him to look earlier investigators wrong 48 hours for questioning successful a lawsuit related to the chaos astatine the Lionel Messi lawsuit astatine Salt Lake Stadium successful December.
Mr. Biswas had not complied with 2 notices sent by the Bidhannagar constabulary earlier to look earlier it for questioning successful the case. He had sought clip for appearance, citing idiosyncratic reasons, sources said.
They said that officers served the 3rd announcement astatine the registered code of the erstwhile Minister.
This came aft the Calcutta High Court granted extortion to Mr. Biswas from coercive enactment till August 17 and directed him to look earlier the probe bureau connected a announcement by it, which is to beryllium served astatine slightest 48 hours prior.
The lawsuit stems from an FIR lodged against him by the event organiser Shatadru Dutta, accusing the former Minister of black-marketing tickets, extortion, transgression intimidation and cheating successful transportation with the high-profile shot lawsuit successful December, 2005.
The lawsuit astatine the Salt Lake Stadium connected December 13, 2025, had descended into chaos aft a ample fig of radical entered the venue allegedly without valid access, starring to information breaches and assemblage disorder.
Many spectators who had bought costly tickets complained that they could neither decently spot Messi nor bask the programme owed to overcrowding and mismanagement.
Messi near the crushed rapidly amid the commotion, pursuing which sections of aggravated spectators vandalised parts of the stadium.
The contention had triggered a governmental tempest astatine the time, with fingers being pointed astatine the past Sports Minister Aroop Biswas implicit alleged lapses successful readying and assemblage management.
Mr. Dutta was subsequently arrested by constabulary and spent 37 days successful custody earlier securing bail. Following his release, helium blamed Mr. Biswas for the event's illness and the losses suffered by the organisers.
