Koustav Bagchi, the spokesperson for the West Bengal Congress, was arrested on Saturday morning for alleged remarks made against CM Mamata Banerjee.
At about 3.30 am, a sizable team from the Burtola police station in the city conducted a raid at Bagchi’s home in Barrackpore, in the North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, and took him into custody, a senior police official reported.
For his alleged remarks against the chief minister, Koustav Bagchi was the subject of a complaint that was made on Friday at the Burtola police station.