Former West Bengal minister and Trinamool Congress leader Ujjal Biswas was arrested in Nadia district’s Krishnanagar on Tuesday night in an alleged relief material misappropriation case, hours after an angry crowd barged into his residence, pelted him with eggs, and hurled verbal abuses.

Sources said the local protesters gathered at Biswas’ residence after the police allegedly found government relief supplies, including tarpaulins, dhotis, sarees, and clothes, at his house a few days ago. They gheraoed the former Correctional Department Minister for nearly an hour. As the situation escalated, the police detained Biswas and escorted him to the Kotwali Police Station, where they recorded his arrest.

“He is accused of misappropriating relief material. We received a complaint based on which he was arrested,” an officer from the Kotwali Police Station said.

However, family members of the former minister strongly rejected the allegations. They claimed the stored items were part of his official allocation as a minister and MLA, meant for public distribution. “Recently, he had informed the district administration to take these undistributed goods back from his house,” the family told reporters.

The arrest of Biswas adds to the mounting legal troubles for the TMC leaders and ministers of West Bengal. On the same day of Biswas’ arrest, the police registered a case against former minister Indranil Sen and his wife, Madhuchanda Sen, over an alleged financial racket connected to Kolkata’s Durga Puja festivals. Additionally, former Trinamool minister Sujit Bose was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on May 11 in connection with a money-laundering case linked to an alleged municipal recruitment scam.