123 Siliguri: Two persons were arrested on Sunday for threatening the deputy mayor of Siliguri Municipal Corporation a day earlier. The accused were identified as Dibendu Das and Vijay Sharma.
Deputy mayor Ranjan Sarkar said his car had been stopped on Hill Cart Road on Saturday. "Around 4pm, I was on my way to a private nursing home with one of my relatives after getting the news that my sister's mother-in-law had died. My car was passing through Hill Cart Road when a group of men stopped my vehicle, shouted abuses and climbed up on the bonnet. Some said they were from Bihar, while the others were locals. I stepped out of the vehicle and asked them to let me go on my way. They got agitated and said ‘maar du kya' — a threat to kill me. I got back in the car and somehow managed to leave the area," said Sarkar. He added that his personal security officer had been on leave.
Sarkar filed a complaint at Siliguri police station on Sunday. Asserting that hooliganism would not be tolerated in Siliguri, he said: "It is a shame if we cannot walk in our own home. People come from outside the state and create a nuisance. Police will look into the matter administratively; we will look into it politically.
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"Two persons have been arrested and will be produced in court on Monday. An investigation has begun to determine the exact sequence of events and find the others involved," said a police officer.
According to sources, the two accused later visited Trinamool's office in Ward 4 on Sunday and expressed remorse for their actions.