KOLKATA: Congress political leader and legal representative Kaustav Bagchi was gotten by a cops group before daybreak on Saturday and detained a number of hours later on for making bad comments versus West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.
He was later on launched on bail.A police group reached Bagchis home in Barrackpore early on Saturday and asked him to accompany them to the police headquarters.
The Congress political leaders daddy, Kushal, stated the cops turned up at 3 am, when we were all asleep .
He said they asked about my boy and desired me to hand him over to them .
The arrest sparked responses from throughout the political spectrum.
Congress said Bagchi had actually been apprehended for criticising the CM, while CPM and BJP leaders described the arrest authoritarian .
Surprisingly, TMC basic secretary Kunal Ghosh, criticising Bagchi in a Facebook post in his personal capability , stated despite the fact that the Congress political leader had erred, the matter could have been managed politically.
Detaining him was not proper, Ghosh said.
At a press satisfy on Friday, Bagchi had read out parts of a book that makes sure claims about the CMs personal life a day after the CM took potshots at Adhir Chowdhury, the Pradesh Congress president and Behrampore MP, following the Sagardighi assembly bypoll results on Thursday.
The authorities slapped a multitude of charges versus Bagchi: gesture to insult the modesty of a lady, unwanted sexual advances, deliberate insult to provoke a breach of peace, prompting people to commit an offence and criminal conspiracy; some of these are non-bailable areas.
The charges were framed after TMC advocate Sumit Singh lodged a complaint on Friday.The city sessions court granted bail to Bagchi.
Additional chief cosmopolitan magistrate Atanu Mondal rejected the cops prayer to take him into custody till March 10 and released him on a personal bond of Rs 1,000.
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