Kolkata: Two persons, including CPI(M) leader Kalatan Dasgupta, were arrested for allegedly hatching a conspiracy to attack the junior doctors outside the Swashtya Bhawan at Salt Lake in Kolkata who have been protesting against the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital.
The arrests came a day after Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh released an audio clip of a phone call, alleging that a political conspiracy was being hatched to attack the protesting doctors to defame the Mamata Banerjee government in the state.
While Dasgupta was held from the protest site outside Swashtya Bhawan in Sector 5, the other accused, identified as Sanjiv Das, was arrested from Haltu in south Kolkata on Friday night, reported news agency PTI. The Kolkata Police has also lodged a suo motu case in connection with the audio clip.
In the audio clip shared by Kunal Ghosh at a press briefing, two persons can be purportedly heard planning an attack on the doctors while a team had gone to Nabanna (state secretariat) to meet Mamata Banerjee on Thursday evening. The two men can also be heard planning to blame the attack on the ruling TMC.
