Kolkata, June 9 -- Former Mayor of Bidhannagar Municipal Corporation, Sabyasachi Dutta, was arrested by Bidhannagar North Police over allegations of demanding Rs one crore from a businessman and issuing threats, officials said on Tuesday.

Dutta is scheduled to be produced before the Bidhannagar Court later in the day.

Dutta had a shifting political career in West Bengal, starting with the Congress, later joining TMC, where he became the first Mayor of Bidhannagar, switching to BJP in 2019, and returning to TMC in 2021. He has also served as MLA from Rajarhat New Town and contested the recent 2026 Assembly elections from Barasat. He lost to the BJP's Sankar Chatterjee by a margin of 34,558 votes.

The arrest comes amid a series of high-p...