Kolkata: Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Mahua Moitra has alleged that BJP leader Amit Malviya intervened to obstruct West Bengal Police from executing a court warrant in Noida against a man accused of circulating forged chat screenshots linked to her, PTI reported.
Police in West Bengal’s Nadia district claimed that their attempt to arrest the accused was obstructed, following which the individual managed to flee.
Moitra, MP from Krishnanagar in Nadia district, shared three video clips on X which she claimed documented the sequence of events. One of the clips purportedly shows a man speaking to a woman and later making a phone call.
“See how accused calls BJP troll army chief @amitmalviya (Amit Malviya) who threatens Noida Police with ‘aap kuch nahi karenge’. Everything is caught on video,” Moitra alledged in a post.
She charged Malviya with helping the accused evade police action.
Sharing another video in which the alleged accused was seen talking over the phone, the TMC leader said, “Listen to @amitmalviya calling back with Noida cop on line. Sec 41A Notice sent (accused admits earlier on camera he received email), Then @noidapolice took away WB police to station & helped accused abscond.”
State government officials said the police team from Nadia had gone to a high-rise apartment in Noida’s Sector 110 to act on a non-bailable warrant
issued by a court against the accused, who is a content writer on social media. The Noida police also accompanied them.
“Subsequently, after external communications by certain political functionaries, the team was taken to a police station and the legal process was disrupted, allowing the accused to escape. Attempts to trace him are going on,” the officer told reporters Thursday.
The district police added in an X handle post that an initial examination by the cyber cell had established that the chat screenshots in circulation involving Moitra were “forged and fabricated.”
The accused, who was traced behind originating and circulation of the “forged screenshots” in the Bengal police cyber cell probe, was associated with the BJP IT cell, TMC sources claimed.
Responding to the TMC MP’s charge, Union minister and West Bengal BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar said the UP Police are not partisan like the West Bengal force and will work as per law.
Majumdar told PTI that the state police repeatedly failed to execute the Election Commission’s order against four state officials associated with election-related work, as well as in other cases.
“The partisan Mamata Banerjee administration and police can’t implement a single EC request. No action was taken against the four erring state government officials. Similarly, those behind the violence at the Farakka SIR hearing centre were not prosecuted by the state police despite repeated requests by the EC,” he alleged.
In this case, the Bengal police suddenly turned overactive and are going to other states to arrest an individual, Majumdar claimed.
“The UP police will certainly do its job as per law. They are not partisan and inefficient like the Bengal police, and act according to law,” he said.