India, Nov. 10 -- Trinamool Congress MLA Paresh Ram Das was arrested at Kolkata's Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport on Monday, minutes before he was scheduled to board a flight to Mumbai, in connection with a rape and extortion complaint filed in 2023.

Police said a Special Operations Group (SOG) team, acting on specific intelligence that Das was planning to leave Kolkata, intercepted him with the assistance of Bidhannagar Police. He had allegedly been untraceable for 17 days, police sources said. An earlier search at his residence in Canning led to the arrest of four Trinamool Congress functionaries, but Das could not be found.

He was taken to Baruipur police headquarters for questioning and is scheduled to be produced b...