Overview
- Tarakeswar Chakraborty, a former Trinamool councillor for Ward 104, was arrested late on Saturday, June 27, after being picked up from his Santoshpur residence and taken to Survey Park police station for questioning.
- Officers have booked him under several sections including cheating, forgery, criminal intimidation, theft and outraging the modesty of a woman, while one FIR also alleges extortion and another lists molestation and related offences.
- Police say two FIRs filed on June 23 produced sufficient prima facie material to make the arrest and that they will produce Chakraborty in city court and seek custody for further questioning.
- Investigators are in a preliminary stage of the probe, examining evidence and recording witness statements as they pursue claims that Chakraborty and associates used coercion to seize fish farms and amass property.
- The arrest is part of a wider post-election law-enforcement push in Kolkata that has led to roughly a dozen former TMC councillors being detained, a shift that raises questions about municipal oversight and the future administration of KMC.