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MP remanded to judicial custody

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Adhir Chowdhury held in connection with murder

HEATED EXCHANGE: A Youth Congress activist protesting the arrest of Lok Sabha MP Adhir Choudhury in Kolkata on Sunday. — Photo: PTI

KOLKATA: Congress MP Adhir Chowdhury was on Sunday remanded by the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Berhampore, to judicial custody for eight days in connection with the murder of an eatery owner and his son on July 24.

Mr. Chowdhury was arrested from his residence in New Delhi on Saturday and brought here. He was later taken to Berhampore in Murshidabad district.

Shortly after Mr. Chowdhury was produced in the court in the morning, his supporters clashed with the police outside the premises.

The police ordered a lathicharge and then burst tear gas shells to disperse the Congress activists who alleged there was ``a political conspiracy'' behind the arrest.

Congress supporters set fire to a State bus in the central part of the city. Demonstrations were also held in other parts of the State and several long-distance trains were held up for sometime in south Bengal.

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi said the party would launch an agitation across the State and gherao the Writers' Building (State Secretariat) in protest against the arrest.

The Congress observed a 12-hour bandh in Murshidabad, Nadia and Birbhum districts.

Party workers put up roadblocks in some areas in Howrah district and squatted on the railway tracks in Burdwan district.

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