Police arrested former BJP MP Roopa Ganguly on Thursday morning after she sat on dharna overnight at Bansdroni police station. At around 10 am, police told Ganguly she was being arrested, after which she was taken to Lalbazar. From the van she was taken in, accompanied by women officers, the former Rajya Sabha MP alleged that her bag was left at Bansdroni and that she was not permitted to go to the washroom.

West Bengal BJP spokesperson and Rajya Sabha MP Shamik Bhattacharya said, “She protested against the incident of Bansdroni where a student was killed by a JCB (bulldozer)… but the Trinamool government in the state cannot tolerate criticism. And that is why Roopa Ganguly was arrested.”
 

On Wednesday morning, a class IX student in Kolkata was going to a coaching center, near which road repairs were ongoing. A JCB hit the student, who suffered a serious head injury and died.

Protests erupted on the street, with residents complaining that the local councilor of Ward No. 113, Anita Kar Majumdar, has not been seen in the area since the death of the student. While the Patuli police station OC was detained, the Kolkata Police Assistant Commissioner Pradeep Ghoshal also faced protests later.