Goa, Nov. 10 -- Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Paresh Ram Das, who represents the Canning (Paschim) constituency in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district, was arrested at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata on Monday evening while allegedly attempting to flee to Mumbai.

Das is an accused in a high-profile rape and extortion case and had reportedly been evading law enforcement agencies for the past 17 days. He had also repeatedly failed to respond to summons issued by the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of the West Bengal Police.

Acting on specific intelligence inputs, a Special Operations Group from the Baruipur Police District tracked down the legislator at the airport and apprehended him with assistanc...