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A screengrab of the incidental wherever a shooter tried to termination TMC councillor Sushanta Ghosh.
A time aft an equipped antheral tried to sprout him portion helium was sitting extracurricular his location successful Kolkata, Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor Sushanta Ghosh said connected Saturday that helium was “shocked” by the incidental but determined to find retired who was responsible.
“I americium shocked. I volition not spare anyone. I americium waiting to spot who is down this attack,” Ghosh, the councillor from the 108 ward of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC), said.
Ghosh had a adjacent shave connected Friday evening erstwhile helium was sitting extracurricular his location successful Kasba. A purported video of the incidental shows 2 men connected a motorcycle approaching the area. One of the men alights from the motorcycle with a weapon successful his hand, walks up to Ghosh and tries to occurrence astatine him from adjacent scope but the weapon malfunctions. While the antheral connected the motorcycle manages to flee, the antheral who tried to sprout Ghosh is caught and aboriginal arrested.
Immediately aft the incident, Ghosh had said helium was reasoning astir whether oregon not helium should proceed successful the party. Later, however, aft speaking to TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee, helium changed his mind.
According to a constabulary source, a section had planned the onslaught connected Ghosh. “Some section idiosyncratic hired a antheral for this onslaught and helium hired 2 oregon 3 radical from Bihar,” a elder Kolkata Police authoritative said.
Ghosh said that though helium had been attacked earlier, this incidental came arsenic a bigger daze arsenic “he attacked maine astatine my doorstep”.
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