51-year-old held for BJP leader’s death

Kolkata: One more person has been arrested in connection with the alleged murder of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Abhijit Sarkar on May 2, the day assembly poll results were declared. The arrest came after the victim’s elder brother chased the accused, Kajal Das (51), at the Ultadanga crossing and nabbed him.
While Abhijit’s family, especially his brother Biswajit, claimed the accused was very much in city but cops never arrested him, Lalbazar stated that the accused was not named among the 19 whom the family had mentioned before investigators.The total number of arrests now stands at eight. tnn