West Bengal riots: Man arrested in Sonarpur for 'trying to incite' communal violence

Kolkata: A man was arrested from Sonarpur in West Bengal’s South 24 Parganas district for allegedly trying to incite communal violence, the police said on Saturday. [caption id=“attachment_3467854” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] Representational image. Reuters[/caption] Bhabatosh Chatterjee (38) of Rupnagar in Sonarpur was arrested from his residence on Friday for uploading a still photograph on the social media and claiming that it was an image of Baduria , the scene of an ongoing communal unrest, a senior Kolkata Police officer said. “The accused had uploaded (on the social media) a still photograph of a scene from a film and claimed it to be an image of the atrocities going on at Baduria,” he added. A complaint was filed by a person and subsequently, a Kolkata Police team arrested Chatterjee from his residence, the officer said. A mobile phone and a laptop were also seized from the residence of the accused, he added. A city court has sent the accused to police remand till 11 July, said the officer.