KOLKATA: Kalatan Dasgupta, a functionary of CPM youth wing DYFI, was arrested Saturday for allegedly plotting an attack on a doctors’ protest site in Kolkata’s Salt Lake.
This is the second arrest on a suo motu complaint lodged by cops after Trinamool’s ex-Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh released an audio conversation on Friday. In the audio tape, two persons are heard purportedly planning an attack on protesting doctors to allegedly blame it on Bengal’s governing TMC.
Cops said Sanjib Das, the first suspect arrested on Friday, had admitted that one of the voices on the tape was his and that he gave away Dasgupta’s name.Dasgupta was then picked up from a Left activists’ sit-in site Saturday.
Releasing the clip, Ghosh said some Left and ultra-Left party workers had conspired to attack the protesting doctors while their team had gone Thursday to meet CM Mamata Banerjee. As he was led away by cops, Dasgupta said his arrest was an attempt by TMC govt to divert people’s attention from ongoing movement seeking justice for the RG Kar rape-murder victim.CPM said the voice could be an “AI-generated fake audio”. Mohammad Selim, secretary of CPM’s state committee, termed the arrests “illegal and vindictive”.
BJP’s Samik Bhattacharya questioned how Ghosh got access to the clips and why he had released them before the cops or the administration could. In response, Ghosh said: “The audio leak happened from people within the same camp who had plotted attacks on doctors. It is police’s duty to verify the audio’s authenticity.”
On Saturday, Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) DCP Anish Sarkar said police’s technical wings confirmed “genuineness of the clip”.
This is the second arrest on a suo motu complaint lodged by cops after Trinamool’s ex-Rajya Sabha MP Kunal Ghosh released an audio conversation on Friday. In the audio tape, two persons are heard purportedly planning an attack on protesting doctors to allegedly blame it on Bengal’s governing TMC.
Cops said Sanjib Das, the first suspect arrested on Friday, had admitted that one of the voices on the tape was his and that he gave away Dasgupta’s name.Dasgupta was then picked up from a Left activists’ sit-in site Saturday.
Releasing the clip, Ghosh said some Left and ultra-Left party workers had conspired to attack the protesting doctors while their team had gone Thursday to meet CM Mamata Banerjee. As he was led away by cops, Dasgupta said his arrest was an attempt by TMC govt to divert people’s attention from ongoing movement seeking justice for the RG Kar rape-murder victim.CPM said the voice could be an “AI-generated fake audio”. Mohammad Selim, secretary of CPM’s state committee, termed the arrests “illegal and vindictive”.
BJP’s Samik Bhattacharya questioned how Ghosh got access to the clips and why he had released them before the cops or the administration could. In response, Ghosh said: “The audio leak happened from people within the same camp who had plotted attacks on doctors. It is police’s duty to verify the audio’s authenticity.”
On Saturday, Bidhannagar (Salt Lake) DCP Anish Sarkar said police’s technical wings confirmed “genuineness of the clip”.
