A person was detained in connection with a purported incident in which TMC’s Manikchak MLA Sabitri Mitra alleged that a vehicle chased her car in the English Bazar area of Malda district on Saturday night in an attempt to kill her, police said.

A car has also been seized, they added.

An FIR was registered in the matter. The MLA had on Sunday informed her party leadership regarding the purported incident.

The police were investigating the matter, officials said.

Mitra alleged that a car coming near Dharampur in the English Bazar area of Malda started “chasing her car” but it was the “quickness of her driver that saved her life”. She said that her driver then stopped the car in a crowded area following which they informed the police.

Mitra said, “The police are doing their duty. I have full faith in the administration. They have already detained a person and seized a car. Let’s see what comes out in the investigation. I informed TMC state president Subrata Baksi about the incident, which was not normal. I informed him how a car wanted to kill me.”

A senior police officer from Malda said, “We are looking at every aspect. We are working to solve the case in a few days.”

In Malda district, two TMC leaders were killed in separate attacks in January.

In the first incident, TMC councillor Dulal Sarkar was shot dead by some people in the English Bazar area. The police arrested TMC’s Malda city president Narendranath Tiwari, who was later expelled from the party. In the second case, TMC leader Bakul Sheikh and activist Asaruddin Sheikh were attacked while attending the inauguration of a roadwork and drainage system in Kalichak.

Hasan Sheikh, a TMC worker, was killed in the attack.

A TMC leader from the district said, “Sabitri Mitra is probably scared after such attacks. This is the reason she informed the party’s state leadership before the district unit.”

Mitra, however, declined to comment on this.