TMC councillor was targeted over land dispute: Kolkata police

According to the police, during questioning Afroz said that his 2,000 quadrate feet of onshore was forcibly occupied by Hyder Ali, a adjacent subordinate of TMC councillor Ghosh and contempt approaching the councillor for resolution, Afroz claimed that his pleas were ignored.

Afroz allegedly teamed up with 1 Sheikh Iqbal from Bihar’s Munger and conspired to destruct Ghosh with a hefty terms tag of Rupees 10 lakh attached to the execution plot, the constabulary said, adding that further probe is on.

Afroz, a nonmigratory of Gulzar Colony nether Anandapur Police Station successful Kolkata, was apprehended by constabulary connected Saturday day successful the Udochti country of Galsi, connected National Highway 19, portion attempting to fly towards Jharkhand.

Additionally, the constabulary connected Saturday besides arrested a taxi driver, Ahmed, successful transportation with the incident. Another accused, Yuvraj Singh, who rode with Afroz connected a two-wheeler connected Friday night, to onslaught Ghosh, was arrested close aft the incident. Singh was produced successful the tribunal connected Saturday.

Sushanta Ghosh, the TMC councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) ward nary 108, had a adjacent shave connected Friday evening, erstwhile a handgun utilized by accused Yuvraj Singh to unfastened occurrence astatine the councilor from a adjacent scope successful Kasba area, failed to discharge the slug owed to a mechanical fault.

A purported video of the incidental showed 2 men connected a motorcycle successful the area, erstwhile 1 of them walks up to Ghosh with a weapon and tries to occurrence astatine him from adjacent range, but the weapon malfunctions. While the antheral connected the motorcycle manages to flee, the different antheral who tried to sprout Ghosh is caught and aboriginal arrested.

Meanwhile, the constabulary person beefed up Sushanta Ghosh’s security.