Euro Bangla Desk
Abhishek Banerjee was attacked while visiting the Trinamool Congress (TMC) workers affected by the violence after the West Bengal assembly elections. He was admitted to the hospital after the attack. Leaders of various parties condemned it across the country. Police have arrested five people in the incident.
Police said, after watching the video footage, those involved have been identified. First four people and later one more among them have been arrested.
The number of arrests may increase. Those arrested are Akash Gayen, Kajal Das, Debashis Dutta, Tapan Maiti and Nirmalya Sengupta.
Cases have been filed against them for assault, illegal assembly, obstruction, abuse etc. All those arrested are residents of ward number 9 of Rajpur Sonarpur Municipality.
Abhishek went there last Saturday. No written complaint has been made by Abhishek or Trinamool in the incident so far. The state police has taken this action on its own.
