Kolkata, 18 July (H.S.): A woman lawyer has accused associates of former Trinamool Congress (TMC) councillor Bappaditya Dasgupta of attacking her with a knife and pressuring her to withdraw from cases involving the former civic leader. She has lodged a written complaint with Patuli Police Station on Saturday and sought registration of an FIR.

Dasgupta was earlier arrested by Patuli police on charges including extortion and criminal intimidation. The complainant is associated with the legal proceedings in those cases and alleged that she had been receiving threats to withdraw from representing the matter.

In her complaint, the lawyer said she had been receiving death threats over the past several days because of her professional involvement in cases related to Bappaditya Dasgupta and Sourav Ghosh. She claimed to have informed the Officer-in-Charge of Patuli Police Station, the Kolkata Police Commissioner and other senior police officials about the threats.

According to the complaint, while she was on her way to Patuli Police Station on Friday night to pursue the matter, a group of miscreants allegedly intercepted her and attacked her with a knife, leaving her with multiple injuries on her hands.

Sourav Ghosh, also named in the complaint, is the Trinamool Youth Congress president of the ward formerly represented by Dasgupta. He, too, has been arrested by the police.

Dasgupta, a former councillor of Kolkata Municipal Corporation's Ward No. 101, had joined the Trinamool Congress in 2010 after leaving the BJP and was elected councillor in 2015. He and Ghosh had earlier faced allegations of vandalising the houses of BJP workers following the 2021 Assembly elections. Both are currently in police custody.

The police have not yet registered an FIR on the basis of the lawyer's complaint. The allegations are under inquiry.

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Hindusthan Samachar / Priyanka Pandey