Kolkata, June 17 -- Legal troubles for the Trinamool Congress (TMC) continued to mount on Wednesday with the state police arresting former Bengal minister Udayan Guha and registering two fresh corruption cases against TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee.

The two fresh FIRs have been filed against Abhishek on complaints by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Abhijit Das, who unsuccessfully contested from the Diamond Harbour Lok Sabha seat in 2014 and 2024.

Guha, who was picked up from his house on Wednesday morning and placed under arrest, is the fourth TMC ex-minister to be arrested after the Suvendu Adhikari-led government came to power. Earlier Sujit Bose, Ujjwal Biswas and Dilip Mondal were arrested by the police and...