Key Beliaghata accused nabbed

KOLKATA: Around a month and a half after the clash at Beliaghata’s Rashmoni Bazar where two alleged Trinamool Congress factions bombed each other in a fight to control the local syndicates, the detective department of Kolkata Police arrested one of the prime accused, Shankar Chakraborty, on Monday.
There were allegations that the accused was under protection of a senior Trinamool leader and therefore “could not be touched” even though members of both factions were arrested earlier, even from as far as Delhi.After consistent reporting in the media that Shankar was hiding at a party office in Kolkata, the cops finally were forced to make the arrest. Lalbazar officers though claimed the tip-off on Chakraborty came only the day before.
Members of the other faction, Raju Naskar and Ranbir Saha, were arrested from central Delhi’s Paharganj area a few days back.
The incident happened on July 7 when Rani Rashmoni Bazar turned in to a battlefield. According to local Trinamool workers, two factions of the party — one led by Jiban Saha and Alok Das and the other by Shankar Chakraborty — were trying to take control of the real estate business and markets in Beliaghata.