Kolkata, June 3 -- Jay Prakash Majumdar, a state vice-president and official spokesperson of the Trinamool Congress (TMC), was arrested on Wednesday for allegedly molesting an elderly woman and illegally occupying her flat for more than a decade.
Majumdar was taken into custody by a team from Bidhannagar North Police Station after a complaint was lodged by Arati Raychaudhuri, who alleged that the Trinamool leader had continued to occupy her property for years after the expiry of a tenancy agreement.
According to the flat owner's complaint, Majumdar rented her flat in Salt Lake's AE block (AE-337) back in 2012.
"The lease agreement allegedly expired in 2015 and was never renewed. Raychaudhuri claimed that despite repeated requests and leg...