A local court on Monday remanded Trinamool Congress leader Narendranath Chakrabary — who was on Sunday arrested at the Netaji Subhas International Airport for trying to board an aircraft with firearms —to a day’s police custody.
It is another matte however that his lawyers told the court that he was being framed by his political opponents who had without his knowledge planted the weapon inside his luggage.
Chakrabarty a block Trinamool president of Pandaveshwar in Burdwan and also a District Board Member — enjoying the rank of an MlA — was on Sunday caught even as he was trying to enter a Chennai-bound aircraft with a revolver and three cartridges. The gun and the bullets were found during the scanning of his luggage sources said adding he was immediately handed over to the CISF and then to the police. Chakrabarty “failed to show any paper for the guns neither he had informed the Airport authorities about the weapon” sources said.
He was produced at Barrackpore court on Monday when he was granted police custody. This is the second time when a Trinamool leader was arrested at an airport. Earlier a party Rajya Sabha MP was arrested at IGI Airport in Delhi while he was carrying `55 lakh to Guwahati during 2011 elections.
State Opposition leader Suryakanto Mishra said “This has been the tradition of the Trinamool. A revolver is a small thing. They carry bigger things than that.”