Who Is Arrested TMC Leader ‘Pushpa’ Jahangir Khan?
The Calcutta High Court had on May 26 vacated an interim protection granted to Khan, against whom seven FIRs were registered at Falta police station in South 24 Parganas district
Diamond Harbour: Trinamool Congress leader Jahangir Khan was on Monday arrested near the India-Nepal border in north Bengal on "extortion" charges, police said. The Calcutta High Court had on May 26 vacated an interim protection granted to Khan, against whom seven FIRs were registered at Falta police station in South 24 Parganas district.
Khan had come fourth in the Falta assembly repoll on May 21, after he had announced withdrawal of his candidature days before the contest.
Khan had earlier adopted the moniker 'Pushpa' as a challenge to police officer Ajay Pal Sharma, known as 'Singham', who was posted as special observer in Falta. “If he is Singham, then I am Pushpa,” Khan had said after Sharma visited his house ahead of the polls and warned family members against intimidating voters on election day.
"Khan was arrested from the India-Nepal border area in north Bengal," a police officer said.
Details with regard to the arrest were, however, not divulged by the police.
