Overview
- The former Cooch Behar TMC district president was arrested after landing at Bagdogra airport on Wednesday and taken to Kotwali police station.
- A court on Thursday remanded Avijit Dey Bhowmik to 11 days of police custody in connection with a job-fraud FIR.
- The FIR, filed by complainant Satyajit Roy, alleges he was promised a casual-staff job at a government hospital for a fee of ₹10 lakh and paid about ₹2.5 lakh in installments.
- Police have named five other accused — Samrat Kundu, Surat Kundu, Sayandeep Goswami, Rosu Chakraborty, and Rakesh Chowdhury — and invoked multiple non-bailable sections, including Arms Act provisions.
- The arrest came against a tense local political backdrop with prior cases already pending against Dey Bhowmik, heavy security and protests at his court appearance, and investigators have not publicly linked the new FIR to earlier charges.