Kolkata, July 13 -- The West Bengal police on Saturday night arrested Tirthankar Ghosh, the defeated Trinamool Congress (TMC) candidate at North 24 Parganas district's Panihati seat in the April assembly polls and son of the seat's former incumbent Nirmal Ghosh in multiple criminal cases, officials aware of the matter said.

"Tirthankar Ghosh was arrested from the Dakshineswar area for his alleged involvement in a 2021 post-assembly poll violence case and also for allegedly snatching a prize-winning lottery ticket from a Panihati hotel owner's driver in November 2024. He is being produced before the Barrackpore court today," a district police officer said on Monday afternoon, requesting anonymity.

"Sushanta Sarkar, the hotel owner, has a...