A Trinamool Congress district leader, accused of threatening officials in a private hospital in West Bengal's Birbhum district with a firearm, was Monday arrested and remanded to police custody, police said
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The incident came to light after the closed circuit television footage of the private hospital - which was aired on television channels - showed Ashish Dey beating up and brandishing a firearm to threaten the hospital officials at Suri.
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Dey surrendered at the Suri police station Monday and later a court remanded him to police custody for five days, police said.
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Dey, however, claimed he was framed. "It's a cooked up case. The CCTV footage has been tampered with."
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Trinamool MP from Birbhum Satabdi Roy said Dey had been expelled from the party earlier.
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But local television channels showed him on stage alongside former railway minister Mukul Roy and current state Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee at separate programmes.
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