Aam Janata Unnayan Party founder Humayun Kabir calls Malda gherao arrest ‘politically motivated’

Humayun Kabir, Minister of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly

Aam Janata Unnayan Party founder Humayun Kabir on Saturday termed the arrest of a former candidate of his ally AIMIM for the gherao of seven judicial officers in Malda "unjust and politically motivated". He claimed that the police had in fact arrested the person who "helped in restoring peace in the area".

Mofakkarul Islam, the alleged master-mind of the gherao in Malda district, was arrested on Friday. PICS/PTI

The West Bengal Police on Friday arrested two persons, including advocate Mofakkarul Islam, who has been described by the force as the "mastermind" of the gherao on Friday. Reacting to the police action, Kabir, in a social media post, said, "The action by the Bengal CID following Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's instruction is unjust and politically motivated."

Seven judicial officers were held hostage inside the local BDO office in the Mothabari area of Malda district, and an eighth was confined inside a vehicle for about nine hours on Wednesday after a large crowd, protesting post-SIR deletion of names from voters' lists, turned violent by blocking roads, vandalising vehicles and attacking police personnel.

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