Overview
- Bidhannagar police issued a third 48‑hour notice to former West Bengal sports minister Aroop Biswas and said he did not appear before the station after the deadline expired on Monday.
- Organiser Shatadru Dutta filed the FIR that triggered the probe, accusing Biswas of cheating, extortion, criminal intimidation and conspiracy in connection with crowd disorder at Messi’s Salt Lake Stadium appearance.
- Dutta alleges nearly 22,000 tickets were sold on the black market and says Biswas demanded thousands of complimentary passes and threatened to cancel the programme when his demands were not met.
- The Calcutta High Court granted Biswas conditional protection from coercive action while ordering him to deposit his passport and restrict his movement within his local police area, and the court permitted the police investigation to proceed.
- The case has political and legal stakes with Dutta challenging the interim protection before a higher bench and police warning they will report Biswas’s non‑appearance to the court as they pursue further steps.