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Former West Bengal Forest Minister Jyotipriya Mallick. | Photo Credit: ANI
The youth, recognized as Abhishek Das, was later arrested by police and is being interrogated.
The official stated the accused, aged round 30 years, had trailed Mr. Mallick, who entered his residence round 9 p.m. The youth all of the sudden pounced on the previous Minister and punched him in his decrease stomach, leaving Mr. Mallick shocked.
As Mr. Mallick raised a hue and cry, his safety employees and others close by rushed in and overpowered the youth. The accused was later handed over to the Bidhannagar police.
The youth informed interrogators he was a resident of the Habra space within the North 24 Parganas district and wished to speak to Mr. Mallick for a job. Mr. Mallick represents the Habra constituency within the West Bengal Assembly.
It was later recognized that the youth had been below psychiatric remedy at a state hospital within the metropolis and had finished a number of recce to Mr. Mallick’s home in Salt Lake earlier within the day, the police official stated.
Mr. Mallick informed reporters he was below the impression that the youth wished to fulfill him like different guests and was astounded when he all of the sudden lunged ahead and hit him.
“I am not sure if he was in an inebriated condition. I had never seen him before. It is unimaginable that someone from Habra will assault me,” the ruling occasion’s MLA stated.
He, nonetheless, termed the assault a one-off case.
Mr. Mallick had been arrested by central businesses in reference to a corruption case about two years in the past, when he was the Forest Minister. The corruption case was associated to his stint as Food and Civil Supplies Minister earlier.
In the wake of his arrest, Mr. Mallick was faraway from his put up, with Birbaha Hansda taking cost because the Forest Minister.
Published – November 03, 2025 02:41 am IST
