In what the BJP leadership called Mamata Banerjee “politics of vendetta”, the East Midnapore police have lodged an FIR against BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari and his brother Soumendu for allegedly looting hundreds of tarpaulin and other relief material — kept to be distributed in the cyclone-hit areas — worth several lakhs of rupees from the Contai municipal godown.
A complaint lodged by one Ratnadip Manna, a member of the Contai Municipal Administrative Board, alleged that tarpaulins “worth lakhs of rupees” were “taken away” by “forcefully and illegally breaking the locks” at the instance of Adhikari and his brother and former Municipal Chief Soumendu Adhikari of Contai Municipality.
The complaint was registered on a when day Rakhal Bera a close associate of Adhikari was arrested on charges of extorting cash from people promising them jobs. He was arrested from his Maniktala residence in North Kolkata.