India, April 3 -- All India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul-Muslimeen (AIMIM) leader Mofakkerul Islam was arrested at the Bagdogra airport on Friday after he was named the main conspirator behind the April 1 violence at Mothabari in West Bengal's Malda during protests against voter deletions as part of the electoral roll Special Intensive Revision (SIR).

Videos posted on social media purportedly showed Islam making an incendiary speech on Wednesday when a mob held eight judicial officers involved in the SIR hostage for over eight hours and attacked their vehicles. A second accused, Akramul Bagani, was arrested for allegedly uploading incendiary videos on YouTube.

In one of the videos, the authenticity of which HT could not verify, Islam could be he...