CPM youth wing leader among 2 arrested over 'threat' audio clip

A CPM youth wing leader who is also a member of the party's Kolkata district committee, Kalatan Dasgupta, was arrested on Saturday for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to attack the sit-in demonstration of junior doctors, who are demanding justice for the rape and murder of a medic of RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.

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The police move came in the wake of Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh making an audio clip public on Friday and alleging that a conspiracy was on to attack the demonstration site and derail the protest outside Swasthya Bhavan, the state health department headquarters in Salt Lake.

The Bidhannagar police commissionerate lodged a suo motu case and initiated investigations. A person identified as Sanjib Das was arrested on Friday night from Haltu area of Kasba in south Kolkata. The police claimed that Das was one of the two persons whose voice was heard in the clip.