Kolkata

Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra on Friday alleged that BJP leader Amit Malviya intervened to obstruct the execution of a court-issued warrant by the West Bengal Police in Uttar Pradesh’s Noida against a man accused of circulating “fabricated” chat messages linked to her.

The West Bengal Police’s Nadia district unit also claimed that their attempt to arrest the accused was impeded, enabling him to flee.

Reacting to the allegations, Union minister and BJP leader Sukanta Majumdar said the Uttar Pradesh Police were not partisan like their West Bengal counterparts and would act strictly in accordance with the law.

Moitra, the MP from Krishnanagar constituency in Nadia district, shared three video clips on X, which she said documented the sequence of events during the failed arrest attempt. One of the clips purportedly shows the accused speaking to a woman before making a phone call.

“See how accused calls BJP troll army chief @amitmalviya who threatens Noida Police with ‘Aap kuch nahi karenge’. Everything is caught on video,” Moitra alleged in a post on Thursday.

She further accused Malviya of facilitating the accused’s escape from police action.

Sharing another video, in which the alleged accused is seen speaking over the phone, the TMC leader claimed, “Listen to @amitmalviya calling back with Noida cop on line. Sec 41A notice sent (accused admits earlier on camera he received email). Then @noidapolice took away WB police to station and helped accused abscond.”

According to West Bengal Police officials, a team from Nadia district had travelled to a high-rise apartment in Noida’s Sector 110 to execute a non-bailable warrant issued by a court against the accused, who is a social media content writer. Personnel from the Noida Police accompanied the Bengal team.

“Subsequently, after external communications by certain political functionaries, the team was taken to a police station and the legal process was disrupted, allowing the accused to escape. Efforts to trace him are ongoing,” an officer said.

The Nadia district police also stated in a post on X that a preliminary probe by the cyber cell had established that the chat screenshots involving Moitra, which were circulated online, were “forged and fabricated”.

TMC sources claimed that the accused, identified during the cyber cell investigation as the originator and distributor of the forged screenshots, was associated with the BJP’s IT cell.

Responding to the controversy, Majumdar told PTI that the West Bengal Police had repeatedly failed to act on directives of the Election Commission in the past, including orders against four state officials linked to election-related duties.

“The partisan Mamata Banerjee administration and police cannot implement even a single request of the Election Commission. No action was taken against four erring officials. Similarly, those behind violence at the Farakka SIR hearing centre were not prosecuted despite repeated EC requests,” he alleged.

In contrast, he said, the Bengal police had suddenly turned “overactive” in this case by travelling to another state to arrest an individual.

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“The UP Police will certainly perform their duty as per law. They are not partisan or inefficient like the Bengal police and will act strictly according to legal provisions,” Majumdar added.