Police said that Bapi Pal, 25, of Janakinagar village, who worked as a civic police volunteer, but now unemployed, was arrested after a Trinamool Congress supporter filed a complaint at Harishchandrapur police station.
The Civic Police Volunteer Force was introduced by the Kolkata civic body in 2008 to assist Kolkata police in traffic management.
A Jadavpur University professor was arrested in April 2012 for posting a cartoon on Facebook featuring Banerjee with the then Railway Minister Mukul Roy and his predecessor Dinesh Trivedi.
The 2012 cartoon had showed the chief minister and the railway minister exchanging dialogues from popular Bengali film “Sonar Kella,” a detective thriller by Satyajit Ray, which alluded to the replacement of Trivedi by Roy as railway minister.
By Ruchi Singh
reporter
Park Sae-jin
swatchsjp@ajunews.com
