“A man was arrested from Port Blair in connection with the murder of a Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader in Baguiati on the northern fringes of Kolkata,” police said on May 18. “Sanjeev Das, also known as Potla, was killed allegedly in a clash between two factions of the TMC on April 27,” they said.
“A businessman, identified as Kapil Deb, was arrested from a lodge in Aberdeen Bazaar in Port Blair in a joint operation by the South Andaman Police and the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate on May 16,” they added.
South Andaman's SP Niharika Bhatt told PTI, "The West Bengal Police shared information about the accused and we immediately began a search. Meanwhile, a team of officers from West Bengal also arrived at Port Blair and in a joint operation we managed to arrest Kapil Deb from a hotel in Aberdeen Bazaar."
